by Adem Ait Fonollà | May 7, 2025 | research
As part of our ongoing research, we periodically monitor GitHub to understand what is gaining traction and popularity within the community, using stars as a proxy. In May 2022, our analysis of the top 25 starred repositories revealed some surprising trends,...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Jan 21, 2025 | AI, Community, research
The development of empirical studies in Open-Source Software (OSS) requires large amounts of data regarding software development events and developer actions, which are typically collected from code hosting platforms. Code hosting platforms are built on top of a...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Oct 2, 2024 | research, Tool
In the field of empirical software engineering, the ability to analyze vast amounts of data from software repositories is crucial. With platforms like GitHub providing access to millions of repositories, researchers face the challenge of creating manageable and...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Sep 21, 2022 | Community, Tool, Uncategorized
The growing AI market has generated an explosion of libraries, datasets, models and all types of AI-related software artefacts to exploit and serve such markets. Many of them released with open-source licenses to facilitate their reuse and foster collaboration efforts...
by Adem Ait Fonollà | Apr 25, 2022 | Community, research
As you all know, Open Source software (OSS) proposes a collaborative development model where the code is accessible and anyone can contribute. However, this very own collaborative nature becomes one of its main sources of problems, as developers abandoning the project...
