How Early Participation Determines Long-Term Sustained Activity in GitHub Projects?
Abstract
Although the open source model bears many advantages in software development, open source projects are always hard to sustain. Previous research on open source sustainability mainly focuses on projects that have already reached a certain level of maturity (e.g., with communities, releases, and downstream projects). However, limited attention is paid to the development of (sustainable) open source projects in their infancy, and we believe an understanding of early sustainability determinants is crucial for project initiators, incubators, newcomers, and users.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Xiao-al:FSE23,
author = {Wenxin Xiao and
Hao He and
Weiwei Xu and
Yuxia Zhang and
Minghui Zhou},
title = {How Early Participation Determines {Long-Term} Sustained Activity in {GitHub} Projects?},
booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
pages = {29--41},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2023},
}