Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage

Abstract

Abstract: Past research suggests software should be continuously maintained in order to remain useful in our digital society. To determine whether these studies on software evolution are supported in modern-day software libraries, we conduct a natural experiment on 26,050 GitHub repositories, statistically modeling library usage based on their package-level downloads against different factors related to project maintenance.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Nguyen:FSE23,
  author    = {Emily Nguyen},
  title     = {Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict {OSS} Usage},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {2195--2197},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2023},
}

Do All Software Projects Die When Not Maintained? Analyzing Developer Maintenance to Predict OSS Usage

Abstract

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