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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| author | Milo Z. Trujillo Laurent Hébert-Dufresne James Bagrow |
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| description | 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, and may not be representative of open source development off the platform. Here we develop a novel, extensive sample of public open source project repositories outside of centralized platforms. We characterized these projects along a number of dimensions, and compare to a time-matched sample of corresponding GitHub projects. Our sample projects tend to have more collaborators, are maintained for longer periods, and tend to be more focused on academic and scientific problems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da408d5307ac451ab227d350b0e289192022-12-22T00:31:31ZengSpringerOpenEPJ Data Science2193-11272022-05-0111111910.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00345-7The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborativeMilo Z. Trujillo0Laurent Hébert-Dufresne1James Bagrow2Complex Systems Center, University of VermontComplex Systems Center, University of VermontComplex Systems Center, University of VermontAbstract 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, and may not be representative of open source development off the platform. Here we develop a novel, extensive sample of public open source project repositories outside of centralized platforms. We characterized these projects along a number of dimensions, and compare to a time-matched sample of corresponding GitHub projects. Our sample projects tend to have more collaborators, are maintained for longer periods, and tend to be more focused on academic and scientific problems.https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00345-7Open sourceTeamworkCollective dynamicsOnline social networks |
| spellingShingle | Milo Z. Trujillo Laurent Hébert-Dufresne James Bagrow The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative EPJ Data Science Open source Teamwork Collective dynamics Online social networks |
| title | The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative |
| title_full | The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative |
| title_fullStr | The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative |
| title_full_unstemmed | The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative |
| title_short | The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative |
| title_sort | penumbra of open source projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained more academic and more collaborative |
| topic | Open source Teamwork Collective dynamics Online social networks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00345-7 |
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