Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2020
Abstract
In this paper we characterize the contributions made by employees (developers that work for GitHub, the company) and volunteers (developers that use GitHub, the platform) to OSS projects maintained by GitHub (the company) on GitHub (the platform). By mining activities performed in five well-known company-owned OSS projects, we investigate what they do and when they do it. We found that the majority of the volunteers' contributions are related to reengineering (e.g., refactoring), while employees focus more on management (e.g., documentation). When it comes to the working hours, we found that contributions are made mostly from 9am-5pm, even for the volunteers.
Keywords
Employees, Open Source Software, Volunteers
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Dunedin, New Zealand, August 10-14
First Page
1
Last Page
5
ISBN
9781728169019
Identifier
10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Citation
DIAS, Luiz Felipe; BARBOSA, Caio; PINTO, Gustavo; STEINMACHER, Igor; FONSECA, Baldoino; RIBEIRO, Márcio; TREUDE, Christoph; and DA COSTA, Daniel Alencar.
Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and when employees and volunteers contribute to OSS. (2020). Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Dunedin, New Zealand, August 10-14. 1-5.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8909
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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/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205