How successful are open source contributions from countries with different levels of human development?

Author

Leonardo FURTADO
Bruno CARTAXO
Christoph TREUDE, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Gustavo PINTO

Publication Type

Magazine Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2021

Abstract

In this article we studied whether developers? locations relate to the outcome of a pull request (PR). Our results suggest that developers from countries with low human development indexes perform a small fraction of the overall PRs and are the ones that face rejection the most.

Keywords

Open source projects, Pull requests, Human development index

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

IEEE Software

Volume

38

Issue

2

First Page

58

Last Page

63

ISSN

0740-7459

Identifier

10.1109/MS.2020.3044020

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Citation

FURTADO, Leonardo; CARTAXO, Bruno; TREUDE, Christoph; and PINTO, Gustavo. How successful are open source contributions from countries with different levels of human development?. (2021). IEEE Software. 38, (2), 58-63.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8822

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.3044020