Understanding project dissemination on a social coding site

Jiang, Jing; Zhang, Li; Li, Lei

doi:10.1109/wcre.2013.6671288

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Social relationships between users are utilized to disseminate projects, attract contributors, and increase projects' popularity [30]. Thus, the prestige of a developer in a social network of followrelationships indicates how useful they are to others and how valuable their activities and contributions are.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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A study on the geographical distribution of Brazil’s prestigious software developers

Filho

Perin

Marczak

et al. 2015

J Internet Serv Appl

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Brazil is an emerging economy with many IT initiatives from public and private sectors. To evaluate the progress of such initiatives, we study the geographical distribution of software developers in Brazil, in particular which of the Brazilian states succeed the most in attracting and nurturing them. We compare the prestige of developers with socio-economic data and find that (i) prestigious developers tend to be located in the most economically developed regions of Brazil, (ii) they are likely to follow others in the same state they are located in, (iii) they are likely to follow other prestigious developers, and (iv) they tend to follow more people. We discuss the implications of those findings for the development of the Brazilian software industry.

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“…Thung et al [42] extracted information about 100,000 projects from GitHub and identified their most influential developers. Jiang et al [30] examined follow-relationships among GitHub users. They discovered that social relationships are not reciprocal and that social links play a notable role in project dissemination.…”

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A study on the geographical distribution of Brazil’s prestigious software developers

Filho

Perin

Marczak

et al. 2015

J Internet Serv Appl

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“…OSS hosting platforms create enormous communities which focus on developing and maintaining OSS [19]. These platforms offer a good mean enabling efficient collaboration across developers with varying technical backgrounds who are distributed across different locations [20].…”

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“…Moreover, JavaForge has as well announced on March, 2016 that it will be shut down permanently [25]. Among the 10 platforms that were selected, GitHub is the largest one hosting the largest number of OSS projects [19], [20], [22], [35]. Other platforms such as Bitbucket, Gitlab, Codeplex and SourceForge are also popular platforms.…”

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“…There are plenty of OSS hosting platforms which incorporate social networking features, for that, these platforms might also be called social coding platforms. Social functionalities have made a remarkable change in collaborative software development [19]. Moreover, the involvement of social features has simplified interactions between developers on a larger scale.…”

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Open Source Software Hosting Platforms: A Collaborative Perspective’s Review

Alamer¹,

Alyahya²

2017

JSW

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Abstract:Open source software (OSS) has been gaining large attention lately. In fact, several studies have shown that the collaboration is a remarkably major factor influencing the OSS quality. In addition, there are several existing platforms providing mediums for collaborative development of the OSS projects and involve advanced features that assist in boosting the collaboration process. Such platforms which can be called as open source software hosting platforms are rich of collaborative workflows. Therefore, in this research a comprehensive investigation of the current OSS hosting platforms is held for the sake of studying their collaboration capabilities as well as pointing out any limitations related to collaboration that might hinder OSS from meeting high quality. The review has shown that the current OSS hosting platforms have some potential limitations. The identified limitations have been shared through a survey with developers working on OSS platforms and the results have generally revealed that there is a necessity to overcome these limitations.

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Improving generality and accuracy of existing public development project selection methods: a study on GitHub ecosystem

Cheng

et al. 2022

Autom Softw Eng

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Understanding project dissemination on a social coding site

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

A study on the geographical distribution of Brazil’s prestigious software developers

A study on the geographical distribution of Brazil’s prestigious software developers

Open Source Software Hosting Platforms: A Collaborative Perspective’s Review

Improving generality and accuracy of existing public development project selection methods: a study on GitHub ecosystem

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