Leveraging Transparency

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

doi:10.1109/ms.2012.172

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“…GitHub has drawn attention from researchers in recent years, who have examined its features that promote transparency, such as activity traces, user profiles, issue trackers, source code hosting, and collaboration (Storey et al, 2014;Dabbish et al, 2013). Researchers have examined in detail how such transparency allows software developers to engage with software practices in the community (Dabbish et al, 2012;Doll, 2013;Singer et al, 2013).…”

Section: Prior Github Researchmentioning

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The appropriation of GitHub for curation

Wang

Kropczynski

et al. 2017

PeerJ Computer Science

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GitHub is a widely used online collaborative software development environment. In this paper, we describe curation projects as a new category of GitHub project that collects, evaluates, and preserves resources for software developers. We investigate:(1) what motivates software developers to curate resources; (2) why curation has occurred on GitHub; (3) how curated resources are used by software developers; and (4) how the GitHub platform could better support these practices. We conduct indepth interviews with 16 software developers, each of whom hosts curation projects on GitHub. Our results suggest that the motivators that inspire software developers to curate resources on GitHub are similar to those that motivate them to participate in the development of open source projects. Convenient tools (e.g., Markdown syntax and Git version control system) and the opportunity to address professional needs of a large number of peers attract developers to engage in curation projects on GitHub. Benefits of curating on GitHub include learning opportunities, support for development work, and professional interaction. However, curation is limited by GitHub's document structure, format, and a lack of key features, such as search. In light of this, we propose design possibilities to encourage and improve appropriations of GitHub for curation.Subjects Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering

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Section: Prior Github Researchmentioning

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The appropriation of GitHub for curation

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Kropczynski

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PeerJ Computer Science

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“…Dabbish et al [53,54] investigated productivity implications by examining how GitHub users make social inferences based on the visible cues and signals in the environment.…”

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“…Completing OSS software change tasks typically involves commits, which provide important cues for making social inferences about developer's behavior [53,54]. Understanding how working with others affects one's own productivity is precisely the focus of our research.…”

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“…The approach, exemplified by GitHub whose tagline is "social coding", aims to dramatically improve the level of collaboration and participation among people who build software [12]. In a nutshell, social coding fuses social networking functionalities with flexible version control systems such as Git, Mercurial, or Bazaar [54].…”

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“…Our vision is to transform foraging theory's ecological validity and predictive accuracy [157,178] to establish a robust grounding for studying a wide range of software engineering events and activities. We articulate this vision by illuminating our work's potential impact on three research fronts: social coding [54], recommendation systems [165], and organizational social structures [184]. In what follows, we survey related work in Section 5.2.…”

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Stakeholders' social interaction in requirements engineering of open source software

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2014

2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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In this work, we use the phrase "stakeholders' social interaction" to indicate interaction among stakeholders regarding the software system that takes place through some communication means, such as posting comments and artifacts over the issue tracking system.We investigate the influence of stakeholders' social interaction in different RE activities, in particular, requirements identification, creativity in RE, and requirements implementation of OSS systems. This research enables us to gain valuable insights to generate guidelines for enhancing software engineering practice in relevant areas.

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Identifying unusual commits on GitHub

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J Software Evolu Process

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Transparent environments and social-coding platforms as GitHub help developers to stay abreast of changes during the development and maintenance phase of a project. Especially, notification feeds can help developers to learn about relevant changes in other projects. Unfortunately, transparent environments can quickly overwhelm developers with too many notifications, such that they lose the important ones in a sea of noise. Complementing existing prioritization and filtering strategies based on binary compatibility and code ownership, we develop an anomaly detection mechanism to identify unusual commits in a repository, which stand out with respect to other changes in the same repository or by the same developer. Among others, we detect exceptionally large commits, commits at unusual times, and commits touching rarely changed file types given the characteristics of a particular repository or developer. We automatically flag unusual commits on GitHub through a browser plug-in. In an interactive survey with 173 active GitHub users, rating commits in a project of their interest, we found that, although our unusual score is only a weak predictor of whether developers want to be notified about a commit, information about unusual characteristics of a commit changes how developers regard commits. Our anomaly detection mechanism is a building block for scaling transparent environments. KEYWORDSanomaly detection, information overload, notification feeds, software ecosystems, transparent environments INTRODUCTIONCollaborative development in open source, software ecosystems, and also industrial software systems relies increasingly on decentralized decision making. 1-4 Interdependent components evolve independently and often with little explicit collaboration. Backward-incompatible changes that break modularity and produce rippling effects on downstream components are often necessary to avoid opportunity costs (not fixing mistakes, stifling change in the face of evolving requirements) and common in practice. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] In addition, components may change to add new functionality that developers might want to adopt. Identifying relevant changes and reacting to them if needed can create a significant burden on developers during maintenance. 10,[15][16][17][18][19][20] Seeds of a solution can be found in today's transparent environments or social-coding platforms such as GitHub, LaunchPad, and Bitbucket. These environments provide mechanisms for notification and exploration, that help developers to stay abreast of activities across collections of projects without central planning. 21,22 For example, on GitHub, developers can watch projects and receive a notification feed of activities in watched projects, such as push events or bug reports. These tools work well at small scales but break down for large projects where imprecise and insufficiently rich notification mechanisms lead to information overload from notification cluttering. By inspecting publicly available events on GitHub, we found t...

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Leveraging Transparency

Cited by 68 publications

References 9 publications

The appropriation of GitHub for curation

The appropriation of GitHub for curation

Stakeholders' social interaction in requirements engineering of open source software

Identifying unusual commits on GitHub

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