Free and open source software development: the end of the teenage years

Steinmacher, Igor; Robles, Gregório; Fitzgerald, Brian; Wasserman, Anthony I.

doi:10.1186/s13174-017-0069-9

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“…Our results also show that young and novice contributors often shift their motivation towards Reputation and other careerrelated motivations. This may relate to the new landscape of OSS [49,1], in which companies are key players. Moreover, novices may use their OSS contribution history as a portfolio, and potential employers are increasingly referring to online contributions when making hiring decisions [60].…”

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“…The exact question wording is provided in our supplementary material. 1 We also added an attention check item ("This is a verification question, please answer Strongly Agree.") and a question to collect other potential motivations not covered by the items ("Are there any other reasons for contributing to F/OSS that we haven't covered above?…”

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“…Much has changed since the early days of Open Source Software (OSS) [1], from the type of products it creates, to who participates (e.g., individuals, industry consortia, companies), to how it operates (e.g., industry funded projects, foundations, social coding platforms). OSS today enjoys a place of distinction in producing key technologies and providing learning and career opportunities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source

Gerosa

Wiese

Trinkenreich

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2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry participation, and providing professional career opportunities. But our field's understanding of what motivates people to contribute to OSS is still fundamentally grounded in studies from the early 2000s. With the changed landscape of OSS, it is very likely that motivations to join OSS have also evolved. Through a survey of 242 OSS contributors, we investigate shifts in motivation from three perspectives: (1) the impact of the new OSS landscape, (2) the impact of individuals' personal growth as they become part of OSS communities, and (3) the impact of differences in individuals' demographics. Our results show that some motivations related to social aspects and reputation increased in frequency and that some intrinsic and internalized motivations, such as learning and intellectual stimulation, are still highly relevant. We also found that contributing to OSS often transforms extrinsic motivations to intrinsic, and that while experienced contributors often shift toward altruism, novices often shift toward career, fun, kinship, and learning. OSS projects can leverage our results to revisit current strategies to attract and retain contributors, and researchers and tool builders can better support the design of new studies and tools to engage and support OSS development.

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The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source

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2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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“…the governance of the project" (P7). However, currently there is a misconception that success in OSS is only achieved through activities related to source code [31,32,33,34].…”

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Please Don't Go -- A Comprehensive Approach to Increase Women's Participation in Open Source Software

Trinkenreich¹

2021

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Women represent less than 24% of employees in the software development industry and experience various types of prejudice and bias. Despite various efforts to increase diversity and multi-gendered participation, women are even more underrepresented in Open Source Software (OSS) projects. In my PhD, I investigate the following question: How can OSS communities increase women's participation in their projects? I will identify different OSS career pathways and develop a holistic view of women's motivations to join or leave OSS, as well as their definitions of success. Based on this empirical investigation, I will work together with the Linux Foundation to design attraction and retention strategies focused on women. Before and after implementing the strategies, I will conduct empirical studies to evaluate the state of the practice and understand the implications of the strategies.

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“…We focus in this paper on the OSS model, which has become an important driving force in modern software development [14]. Commercial companies and startups increasingly contribute to OSS as well as opening their own projects to the open-source community [15].…”

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Expanding the Number of Reviewers in Open-Source Projects by Recommending Appropriate Developers

Chueshev

Lawall

Bendraou

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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Code review is an important part of the development of any software project. Recently, many open source projects have begun practicing lightweight and tool-based code review (a.k.a modern code review) to make the process simpler and more efficient. However, those practices still require reviewers, of which there may not be sufficiently many to ensure timely decisions. In this paper, we propose a recommender-based approach to be used by open-source projects to increase the number of reviewers from among the appropriate developers. We first motivate our approach by an exploratory study of nine projects hosted on GitHub and Gerrit. Secondly, we build the recommender system itself, which, given a code change, initially searches for relevant reviewers based on similarities between the reviewing history and the files affected by the change, and then augments this set with developers who have a similar development history as these reviewers but have little or no relevant reviewing experience. To make these recommendations, we rely on collaborative filtering, and more precisely, on matrix factorization. Our evaluation shows that all nine projects could benefit from our system by using it both to get recommendations of previous reviewers and to expand their number from among the appropriate developers.

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Free and open source software development: the end of the teenage years

Cited by 14 publications

References 56 publications

The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source

The Shifting Sands of Motivation: Revisiting What Drives Contributors in Open Source

Please Don't Go -- A Comprehensive Approach to Increase Women's Participation in Open Source Software

Expanding the Number of Reviewers in Open-Source Projects by Recommending Appropriate Developers

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