Sustainability of open source projects is one of my major concerns. Similar to any other shared-resource system, participation inequality is a major challenge in open source. This is known as the “volunteer’s dilemma”: everybody wants to benefit from...
Any important decision should be grounded on data. This is also true for any decision that affects your software projects. You shouldn’t reach any conclusion regarding the health of your project or the actions to take to improve it without a good look at the...
I’m a visual person. I prefer to use graphical tools whenever possible. This also applies to the management of my (humble) code contributions to the research team tools, all of them hosted on GitHub. So far, I’ve been using SourceTree as Git client to...
As part of the 2nd International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2020), I gave the keynote “Lessons learned from building a commercial bot development platform” where I discussed some of the key aspects we have learned while building our...
Like it or not, the first thing any recruiter will look at (just after googling your name) is your GitHub Profile. This somehow assumes that any developer should have a healthy contribution to a number of open-source projects (or side projects) in your free time to be...
Sustainability of open source is a huge problem, especially in a world where all software depends, one way or the other, on open-source software to run. There are many ways to help and thank open-source maintainers but, IMHO, the only scalable option to make OSS...
