Abstract:GitHub's current prominence over SourceForge among Open Source Software (OSS) developers calls into question the continued relevance of SourceForge data, as well as the external validity and relevance of studies that investigate OSS theories using SourceForge data. In this paper, we investigate the continued relevance of SourceForge data and propose that using SourceForge or GitHub data is not an either/or proposition but rather two parts of a bigger picture. Echoing the call in the IS literature to contextual… Show more
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