Abstract Context: Mining Software Repositories (MSR) is a growing area of Software
Engineering (SE) research. Since their emergence in 2004, many investigations have …

Many open-source software projects are self-organized and do not maintain official lists with
information on developer roles. So, knowing which developers take core and maintainer …

Despite the absence of a formal process and a central command-and-control structure,
developer organization in open-source software (OSS) projects are far from being a purely …

Focusing on the dataset dissemination structure on Twitter, this study aims to investigate
how users of two different identities, scholars and the public, participate in the dissemination …

Ever since the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from
interdisciplinary domains have worked together to fight against the crisis. The open source …

Online collaborative platforms provide an environment for diverse developers to collaborate
together in Open Source Software (OSS) projects. Previous studies in Software Engineering …

With the increasing popularity of machine learning (ML), many open-source software (OSS)
contributors are attracted to developing and adopting ML approaches. Comprehensive …

Developers rely on open-source packages and must review dependencies to safeguard
against vulnerable or malicious upstream code. A careful review of all dependencies …

Many open source projects organize teams to collaboratively manage their software
development activities (ie issue resolution processes). Therefore good configurations of …

Background. The development of empirical studies in software engineering mainly relies on
the data available on code hosting platforms, being GitHub the most representative …