The Architect's Role in Community Shepherding

Tamburri, Damian A.; Kazman, Rick; Fahimi, Hamed

doi:10.1109/ms.2016.144

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“…From a sociotechnical perspective, we sought out the most established indicators of social debt, 12,16 namely, (1) sociotechnical incongruences, or breaks in sociotechnical congruence 28 as well as (2) the presence of suboptimal patterns in the community structure, or community smells 29 . Specifically, in this study we considered three of the community smells defined by Tamburri et al: 12 organizational silo effect, lone‐wolf effect, and bottleneck or “Radio‐silence” effect, which was previously defined.…”

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“The Canary in the Coal Mine…” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

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Summary Forges are online collaborative platforms to support the development of distributed open source software. While once mighty keepers of open source vitality, software forges are rapidly becoming less and less relevant. For example, of the top 10 forges in 2011, only one survives today—SourceForge—the biggest of them all, but its numbers are dropping and its community is tenuous at best. Through mixed‐methods research, this article chronicles and analyze the software practice and experiences of the project's history—in particular its architectural and community/organizational decisions. We discovered a number of suboptimal social and architectural decisions and circumstances that, may have led to SourceForge's demise. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that the impact of such decisions could have been monitored, reduced, and possibly avoided altogether. The use of sociotechnical insights needs to become a basic set of design and software/organization monitoring principles that tell a cautionary tale on what to measure and what not to do in the context of large‐scale software forge and community design and management.

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“…More information about the non-gender-diverse teams are available in our online appendix [14]. As for the set of community smells, previous research defined more than 10 different patterns possibly leading to the emergence of social debt [18]. From this list, we decided to focus on four of them, Organizational Silo, Black Cloud, Lone Wolf, and Radio Silence, as they have characteristics for which the presence of women might consistently affect their emergence.…”

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“…The role of team formation [51] as a success driver for software engineering efforts has been studied from several perspectives [3], [11], [18], [43]- [50], [52]- [56]. Farhangian et al [52] investigated the phenomenon in self-assembling teams typically occurring in open-source commons.…”

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Gender Diversity and Women in Software Teams: How Do They Affect Community Smells?

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2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS)

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“…On the other side, for those communities which are big enough to care for their own emerging organisational and socio-technical processes and structure, there is very limited support. For example, for these big communities, there is limited support to find out the degree to which the community is capable of engaging more actively with newcomers or sponsoring organisations, e.g., so that external parties may engage in shepherding (Tamburri et al 2016) the community with explicit and informed organisational decision-making.…”

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Discovering community patterns in open-source: a systematic approach and its evaluation

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The open-source phenomenon has reached the point in which it is virtually impossible to find large applications that do not rely on it. Such grand adoption may turn into a risk if the community regulatory aspects behind open-source work (e.g., contribution guidelines or release schemas) are left implicit and their effect untracked. We advocate the explicit study and automated support of such aspects and propose YOSHI (Yielding Open-Source Health Information), a tool able to map open-source communities onto community patterns, sets of known organisational and social structure types and characteristics with measurable core attributes. This mapping is beneficial since it allows, for example, (a) further investigation of community health measuring established characteristics from organisations research, (b) reuse of pattern-specific best-practices from the same literature, and (c) diagnosis of organisational anti-patterns specific to open-source, if any. We evaluate the tool in a quantitative empirical study involving 25 open-source communities from GitHub, finding that the tool offers a valuable basis to monitor key community traits behind open-source development and may form an effective combination with web-portals such as OpenHub or Bitergia. We made the proposed tool open source and publicly available.

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The Architect's Role in Community Shepherding

Cited by 62 publications

References 12 publications

“The Canary in the Coal Mine…” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

“The Canary in the Coal Mine…” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

Gender Diversity and Women in Software Teams: How Do They Affect Community Smells?

Discovering community patterns in open-source: a systematic approach and its evaluation

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