Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub

Tsay, Jason; Dabbish, Laura; Herbsleb, James D.

doi:10.1145/2568225.2568315

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“…As a relatively new way to utilize GitHub, users are likely to participate in such kind of repository differently. This relates not only to the number of GitHub users who star a repository, which usually shows a user's interests towards a repository [7,8], but also to the different types of activities that take place inside a curation repository, such as pull requests [8]. Thus, we explore our initial research question through the specific sub-research questions outlined below.…”

Section: Rq2: What Is the Emerging Role Of Curation Repositories In Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior literature has documented software practices on GitHub well [1,2,8], and some literature has provided insights into the curator's motivations and the users' experiences with curation repositories [3,4]. However, a gap still exists in how GitHub features are utilized in curation repositories and how they are adopted differently, as compared to the intended software practice.…”

Section: Rq2: What Is the Emerging Role Of Curation Repositories In Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marlow et al (2013) found that software developers systematically use available cues in GitHub to form an impression about peers in collaboration, e.g., to find out more information, such as interaction style and expertise, about the contributor when responding to code commits [2]. Specifically, Tsay et al (2014) focused on analyzing the GitHub features adopted in evaluating pull requests and found that some features, such as the status of the developers in the community, are likely to increase the acceptance rate [8].…”

Section: The Github Environmentmentioning

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“…Conversely, social media sites, such as Twitter and Pinterest, have a very general user base comprising users that curate for "Entertainment & Hobbies" [5], or "Food & Drink", "DIY & Craft", "Home Decor", and "Women's Fashion" [9]. Second, GitHub concentrates on software practice, where features for collaboration are emphasized [1,2,8], while curation in other social media sites focuses on individuals and does not emphasize collaboration among its users [6,9]. The comparison leaves an interesting question concerning the characteristics of GitHub as an entirely different environment for curation.…”

Section: The Github Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We first compared the popularity of curation repositories with that of software repositories using the number of stars, which is an indicator of the status and popularity of a repository on GitHub [8].…”

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Abstract:In recent years, software developers have started to appropriate GitHub repositories to curate resources, in order to systematically select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for preservation and future use. Curation behaviors in social media sites, such as users' experiences to curate tweets from Twitter and pins on Pinterest, are well documented. However, GitHub, as a social coding platform, presents a new context for this activity, raising questions about the nature of curation on this task-driven online work site. To explore and understand curation on GitHub, we compared and contrasted curation repositories with software repositories using activity logs and analyzed the content of popular curation repositories. Our results show that: (1) curation repositories have become a favorite category of repositories in GitHub; (2) curation repositories leverage collaborative features and practices native to GitHub in new ways; (3) curation repositories collect and preserve high-quality resources for the software developers' community. Our results suggest that curation is becoming increasingly important to the software developers' community, and current practices can be better supported with tools designed specifically for curation.

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Social networking tools and visible information about developer activities on open source software (OSS) development platforms can leverage developers' social influence to attract more participation from their peers. However, the differential impacts of such social influence on developers' initial and sustained participation behaviors were largely overlooked in previous research. We empirically studied the impacts of two social influence mechanisms—word‐of‐mouth (WOM) and observational learning (OL)—on these two types of participation, using data collected from a large OSS development platform called Open Hub. We found that action (OL) speaks louder than words (WOM) with regard to sustained participation. Moreover, project age positively moderates the impacts of social influence on both types of participation. For projects with a higher average workload, the impacts of OL are reduced on initial participation but are increased on sustained participation. Our study provides a better understanding of how social influence affects OSS developers' participation behaviors. It also offers important practical implications for designing software development platforms that can leverage social influence to attract more initial and sustained participation.

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Establishing personal trust‐based connections in distributed teams

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Trust is a factor that dramatically contributes to the success or failure of distributed software teams. We present a research model showing that social communication between distant developers enables the affective appraisal of trustworthiness even from a distance, thus increasing project performance. To overcome the limitations of self‐reported data, typically questionnaires, we focus on software projects following a pull request‐based development model and approximate the overall performance of a software project with the history of successful collaborations occurring between developers.

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Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub

Cited by 341 publications

References 17 publications

Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories

Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories

Differential impacts of social influence on initial and sustained participation in open source software projects

Establishing personal trust‐based connections in distributed teams

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