TY - GEN
T1 - Newcomer Candidate
T2 - 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2020
AU - Rehman, Ifraz
AU - Wang, Dong
AU - Kula, Raula Gaikovina
AU - Ishio, Takashi
AU - Matsumoto, Kenichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - To attract, onboard, and retain any newcomer in Open Source Software (OSS) projects is vital to their livelihood. Recent studies conclude that OSS projects risk failure due to abandonment and poor participation of newcomers. Evidence suggests more new users are joining GitHub, however, the extent to which they contribute to OSS projects is unknown. In this study, we coin the term 'newcomer candidate' to describe new users to the GitHub platform. Our objective is to track and characterize their initial contributions. As a preliminary survey, we collected 208 newcomer candidate contributions in GitHub. Using this dataset, we then plan to track their contributions to reveal insights. We will use a mixed-methods approach, i.e., quantitative and qualitative, to identify whether or not newcomer candidates practice social coding, the kinds of their contributions, projects they target, and the proportion that they eventually onboard to an OSS project.
AB - To attract, onboard, and retain any newcomer in Open Source Software (OSS) projects is vital to their livelihood. Recent studies conclude that OSS projects risk failure due to abandonment and poor participation of newcomers. Evidence suggests more new users are joining GitHub, however, the extent to which they contribute to OSS projects is unknown. In this study, we coin the term 'newcomer candidate' to describe new users to the GitHub platform. Our objective is to track and characterize their initial contributions. As a preliminary survey, we collected 208 newcomer candidate contributions in GitHub. Using this dataset, we then plan to track their contributions to reveal insights. We will use a mixed-methods approach, i.e., quantitative and qualitative, to identify whether or not newcomer candidates practice social coding, the kinds of their contributions, projects they target, and the proportion that they eventually onboard to an OSS project.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSME46990.2020.00110
DO - 10.1109/ICSME46990.2020.00110
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85096712322
T3 - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2020
SP - 855
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 September 2020 through 3 October 2020
ER -