Titlebook: Open Source Systems; 15th IFIP WG 2.13 In Francis Bordeleau,Alberto Sillitti,Valentina Lenar Conference proceedings 2019 IFIP International

Mirage

BRAWL

What Attracts Newcomers to Onboard on OSS Projects? TL;DR: Popularityd explain the growth rates. We found that popularity of the project (in terms of stars), time to review pull requests, project age, and programming languages are the factors that best explain the newcomers’ growth patterns.

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Why Do People Give Up FLOSSing? A Study of Contributor Disengagement in Open Sourceia). We also find that factors such as the popularity of the projects a contributor works on, whether they have experienced a transition, when they work, and how much they work are all factors that can be used to predict their disengagement from open source.