The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

Vasilescu, Bogdan; Serebrenik, Alexander; Brand, Mark van den

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_34

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“…Indeed, some contributors are likely to: be considerably more active than others; possess di↵erent skills; be involved in di↵erent types of activities (e.g., coding, translating, writing documentation); or otherwise communicate, interact and collaborate di↵erently. • how workload and involvement of ecosystem contributors vary across projects and across activity types [14]; • the extent to which contributors specialise in particular activity types [14]; • how the di↵erences in skills between contributors can be modelled, and what impact such di↵erences might have on the ecosystem's sustainability [15].…”

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Software developers are humans, too!

Vasilescu

2014

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computi

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Open-source communities can be seen as knowledge-sharing ecosystems: participants learn from the community and from one another, and share their knowledge through contributions to the source code repositories or by o↵ering support to users. With the emergence and growing popularity of social media sites targeting software developers (e.g., StackOverflow, GitHub), the paths through which knowledge flows within open-source software knowledge-sharing ecosystems are also beginning to change. My dissertation research seeks to raise our understanding of these changes.

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Software developers are humans, too!

Vasilescu

2014

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“…Possible values for this measure range from 1, indicating complete similarity in the language histories of i and j, to 0, indicating complete dissimilarity. Future refinements to this measure, beyond the scope of the current paper, could also consider how similar different programming languages are with each other [69]. We then aggregate these similarity measures at project level, over all pairs of contributors i and j, i > j, adjusted for team size, and subtract the result from 1 to obtain a degree of dissimilarity:…”

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Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source

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2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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“…• how workload and involvement of ecosystem contributors vary across projects and across activity types [34]; • the extent to which contributors specialise in particular activity types (e.g., writing code vs. contributing to localization) [34]; • how the di↵erences in skills between contributors can be modelled, and what impact such di↵erences might have on the ecosystem's sustainability [37].…”

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“…In two empirical studies of contributors to Gnome [34] and Emacs [37] code repositories, we uncovered:…”

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Human aspects, gamification, and social media in collaborative software engineering

Vasilescu

2014

Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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Software engineering is inherently a collaborative venture. In open-source software (OSS) development, such collaborations almost always span geographies and cultures. Because of the decentralised and self-directed nature of OSS as well as the social diversity inherent to OSS communities, the success of an OSS project depends to a large extent on the social aspects of distributed collaboration and achieving coordination over distance. The goal of this dissertation research is to raise our understanding of how human aspects (e.g., gender or cultural diversity), gamification and social media (e.g., participation in social environments such as Stack Overflow or GitHub) impact distributed collaboration in OSS.

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The Babel of Software Development: Linguistic Diversity in Open Source

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Software developers are humans, too!

Software developers are humans, too!

Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source

Human aspects, gamification, and social media in collaborative software engineering

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