Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository

By Laura A. Dabbish, Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, James D. Herbsleb. 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Social Sciences & Humanities, Software Engineering

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Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing (2012, background): “Julia is an open source project, with all code hosted on github [14].”
An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub (2015, background): “Qualitative studies (Begel et al. 2013; Dabbish et al. 2012; Marlow et al. 2013; McDonald and Goggins 2013; Pham et al. 2013; Gousios et al. 2015) have focused on how developers use GitHub’s social features to form impressions of and draw conclusions about developer and project activity to assess su”
Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems (2021, background): “Social transparency theory has been used to design and analyze various social media features and their impact on social learning [18, 78], social facilitation [44], and reputation management [18].”
How do Data Science Workers Collaborate? Roles, Workflows, and Tools (2020, methodology): “, 44] and by the different roles of team members such as project manager [101] or operator [86]. Many of the tools used by software engineering teams are also used by data science teams (i.e., GitHub [17], Slack [73]), and the lessons learned from this work can inform the design of collaborative too”
Gender and Tenure Diversity in GitHub Teams (2015, background): “In turn, motivated by example [16,28], newcomers may expend more efforts to prove themselves and build reputation [36].”
A Survey of Research on Cloud Robotics and Automation (2015, background): “11). research and many in industry, with the ROS Industrial project created to support these users [17].”
Influence of social and technical factors for evaluating contribution in GitHub (2014, methodology): “[5], indicates that core members for a project, especially when attempting to recruit new members, use prior contributions as a signal of the trustworthiness of a contributor and contribution.”
Quality and productivity outcomes relating to continuous integration in GitHub (2015, background): “, the contributed code—the patch— resides in the same source control management system as the rest of the system, therefore authorship information is effortlessly maintained; on modern collaborative coding platforms such as BitBucket, Gitorius, and GitHub, a wealth of data about the submitter’s trac”
SourceFinder: Finding Malware Source-Code from Publicly Available Repositories (2020, background): “The numbers of watchers is an indication of the popularity of a repository [16].”
MolProbity’s Ultimate Rotamer-Library Distributions for Model Validation (2016, background): “The fundamental v distributions would be unlikely to change much at all if they were redeter-mined in the future, and we plan to keep them freely available on GitHub for testing, for use within other software systems, and for spinoffs such as approximation by differentiable functions.”
The promises and perils of mining GitHub (2009, background): “Several qualitative studies have interviewed GitHub users to better understand how these social features are being used [4, 7, 16].”
Image Object Label 3 D CAD Model Candidate Grasps Google Object Recognition Engine Google Cloud Storage Select Feasible Grasp with Highest Success Probability Pose EstimationCamera Robots Cloud 3 D Sensor (2014, methodology): “The success of open source software [42], [124] is now widely accepted in the robotics and automation community.”
Distinguishing between Personal Preferences and Social Influence in Online Activity Feeds (2016, background): “Since activity feeds are a primary interface element in most social networks that expose people to their friends’ updates [47, 33, 10, 7] and facilitate social learning [12, 20], we look specifically at how influence might flow through these feeds.”