The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative

Abstract GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a valuable means to study teamwork and collaboration. In many ways, however, GitHub is a convenience sample, a...

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Main Authors: Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James Bagrow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-05-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00345-7