Social health cues developers use when choosing open source packages

Abstract

Developers choose open source packages from many alternatives. One increasingly important factor when choosing a package is its "social health", or a developer’s ability to get help on communication channels. We conduct a study to understand how developers learn about the social health of open source packages before using them. We offer preliminary results of the cues developers find.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Head:FSE16,
  author    = {Andrew Head},
  title     = {Social health cues developers use when choosing open source packages},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {1133--1135},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2016},
}

Social health cues developers use when choosing open source packages

Abstract

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