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 Jordi Cabot | Oct 15, 2015 | research
Few days before WordCamp Europe 2015 I wrote to Matt asking for 100K USD and telling him I’d be in Seville, venue of the WordCamp 2015, hoping to discuss my request in person there. This was completely out of the blue. Matt and I had never met in the past nor...
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...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 17, 2015 | Community, research
We have just published an entry on the Journal Object Technology blog summarizing our results (and opinion) on the correlation between the popularity of open source projects and their ability to attract new contributors and in general, their “success”. The...