by Jordi Cabot | Dec 1, 2017 | Community, Code
24 Pull Requests is a great initiative by to encourage everybody to give back to the open source projects they have been using for free all year long. Appealing to the “Christmas Spirit”, the goal is to ensure the sustainability of those projects (and make...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 19, 2017 | Community, Code
Ever wished to hide your identity in GitHub?. Most times you want exactly the opposite. When you’re giving your time for free to help open source projects move along, you at least want to be recognized for that (and if this opens the door to possible employment...
by Javier Cánovas | May 30, 2017 | Community, research
We (Valerio, Jordi and myself) have continued our meta-analysis of research papers on how software development practices are influenced by the use of a distributed social coding platform like GitHub (see our initial work in this area). Our objective is to identify...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 18, 2016 | research, Community
Following up on our introductory post in the topic I’m now “releasing” the full B1 Research Proposal document I submitted to the ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 focused on the study of open source communities. If you want full details of the proposal...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 15, 2016 | Community, research
(follow also the discussion on Hacker News or read the full description of our research line around open source communities) In my (probably naive) perception of the open source world, I used to believe that the word “open” in “open source”...
by Valerio Cosentino | Sep 1, 2015 | Code, Community, research, Tool
Software development projects are notoriously complex and difficult to deal with. Several support tools such as issue tracking, code review and Source Control Management (SCM) systems have been introduced in the past decades to ease development activities. While such...