How Does the Shift to GitHub Impact Project Collaboration?

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Title

How Does the Shift to GitHub Impact Project Collaboration?

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Social coding environments such as GitHub and Bitbucket are changing the way software is built. They are not only lowering the barriers for placing changes, but also making open-source contributions more visible and traceable. Not surprisingly, several mature, active, non-trivial open-source software projects are switching their decades of software history to these environments. There is a belief that these environments have the potential of attracting new contributors to open-source projects...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Conference paper

Thesis level

Conference Proceedings

Date created

4012-04

Creator

Dias, Luiz Felipe / Steinmacher, Igor / Pinto, Gustavo / Alencar Da Costa, Daniel / Gerosa, Marco / IEEE

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/39573

Related subjects

Collaboration / Computer languages / Encoding / Open source software / Rails / Social factors

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