Educating to achieve healthy open source ecosystems

Amorim, Simone da Silva; McGregor, John D.; Almeida, Eduardo Santana de; Chávez, Christina

doi:10.1145/3241403.3241433

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“…Various methods, guidelines, and tools have been proposed to help newcomers overcome these barriers. Technical training is a common method to address the technical barriers [30], [31], which helps newcomers get the necessary expertise and accelerate their onboarding [39], [40]. Assigning mentors to newcomers is also a common practice [40].…”

Section: Overcoming These Barriersmentioning

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Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Yue

Wang

Redmiles

2023

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Attracting and retaining newcomers are critical aspects for OSS projects, as such projects rely on newcomers' sustainable contributions. Considerable effort has been made to help newcomers by identifying and overcoming the barriers during the onboarding process. However, most newcomers eventually fail and drop out of their projects even after successful onboarding. Meanwhile, it has been long known that individuals' early career stages profoundly impact their long-term career success. However, newcomers' early careers are less investigated in SE research. In this paper, we sought to develop an empirical understanding of the relationships between newcomers' dynamic contribution patterns in their early careers and their technical success. To achieve this goal, we compiled a dataset of newcomers' contribution data from 54 large OSS projects under three different ecosystems and analyzed it with time series analysis and other statistical analysis techniques. Our analyses yield rich findings. The correlations between several contribution patterns and technical success were identified. In general, being consistent and persistent in newcomers' early careers is positively associated with their technical success. While these correlations generally hold in all three ecosystems, we observed some differences in detailed contribution patterns correlated with technical success across ecosystems. In addition, we performed a case study to investigate whether another type of contributions, i.e., documentation contribution, could potentially have positive correlations with newcomers' technical success. We discussed the implications and summarized practical recommendations to OSS newcomers. The insights gained from this work demonstrated the necessity of extending the focus of research and practice to newcomers' early careers and hence shed light on future research in this direction.

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Section: Overcoming These Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Yue

Wang

Redmiles

2023

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Another important point is to deal with the cooperation between ecosystem elements including life-cycle processes. Keystones need to support elements in different ways to allow them maintain their health [24] [26]. In their proposed research agenda regarding the organizational processes, Axelsson and Skolund [14] from a business dimension indicate the element certification as a mechanism that can be used from the organizational perspective giving to MSECO elements different access to privileged resources.…”

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Evaluating Processes to Certify Mobile Applications During Developer Relations Activities

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In a Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO), the software organizations have opened up their structures to third-party developers aiming to reach goals to ensure the MSECO is working properly, such as increasing number of users, mobile applications (apps) and developers. Thus, the management organization (keystone) by their Developer Relations (DevRel) teams must restructure its processes to support third-party developers and create ways to attract the development of apps. The development of apps during events planned and conducted by DevRel team (e.g., hackathons or developer conferences) requires an approach that allows developers to achieve the expected performance into the MSECO. However, there is a quality contribution barrier, the App Store, the App Store's criteria do not guarantee that apps certified by these criteria have good performance in number of downloads and positive reviews into the MSECO. Aims: We present an evaluation of a mobile certification approach for the MSECO context, called MSECO-CERT (Mobile Software ECOsystem app CERTification), in terms of mobile application downloads, ratings and changes in developers' attitudes. MSECO-CERT comprises support (MSECO-SUP) and development (MSECO-DEV) processes. We describe two empirical studies: feasibility and observational. MSECO-CERT produced a growth coefficient of downloads (363%) and average user ratings (28%) when compared to an ad hoc approach. We observed that the DevRel practitioners (i.e., developer evangelists) and most of the developers (70%) considered MSECO-SUP and MSECO-DEV processes easy to use. They indicate that they would use both processes in the future. The results indicate that a keystone needs to invest in the analysis of their certification processes considering the ecosystem elements and also create mechanisms that allow monitoring the effect of DevRel activities. Our studies also helped to evolve MSECO-CERT by refining roles, activities and artifacts.

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Pull Requests or Commits? Which Method Should We Use to Study Contributors' Behavior?

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Wiese

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

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Educating to achieve healthy open source ecosystems

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Off to a Good Start: Dynamic Contribution Patterns and Technical Success in an OSS Newcomer’s Early Career

Evaluating Processes to Certify Mobile Applications During Developer Relations Activities

Pull Requests or Commits? Which Method Should We Use to Study Contributors' Behavior?

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