Library adoption in public software repositories

Abstract We study the the spread and adoption of libraries within Python projects hosted in public software repositories on GitHub. By modelling the use of Git pull, merge, commit, and other actions as deliberate cognitive activities, we are able to better understand the dynamics of what happens whe...

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Main Authors: Rachel Krohn, Tim Weninger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:Journal of Big Data
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40537-019-0201-8