GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source
Thu 12 May 2022 22:25 - 22:30 at ICSE room 3-even hours - Reuse and Economics Chair(s): Rick Kazman
GitHub Sponsors, launched in 2019, enables donations to individual open source software (OSS) developers. Financial support for OSS maintainers and developers is a major issue in terms of sustaining OSS projects, and the ability to donate to individuals is expected to support the sustainability of developers, projects, and community. In this work, we conducted a mixed-methods study of GitHub Sponsors, including quantitative and qualitative analyses, to understand the characteristics of developers who are likely to receive donations and what developers think about donations to individuals. We found that: (1) sponsored developers are more active than non-sponsored developers, (2) the possibility to receive donations is related to whether there is someone in their community who is donating, and (3) developers are sponsoring as a new way to contribute to OSS. Our findings are the first step towards data-informed guidance for using GitHub Sponsors, opening up avenues for future work on this new way of financially sustaining the OSS community.
Wed 11 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
05:00 - 06:00 | Human Aspects of SE 3SEIS - Software Engineering in Society / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 4-odd hours Chair(s): Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
05:00 5mTalk | Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering (Journal First Presentation) Journal-First Papers Rashina Hoda Monash University Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
05:05 5mTalk | How are Diverse End-user Human-centric Issues Discussed on GitHub? SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Hourieh Khalajzadeh Monash University, Australia, Mojtaba Shahin RMIT University, Australia, Humphrey Obie Monash University, John Grundy Monash University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
05:10 5mTalk | Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? On the Impact of Cultural and Geographical Dispersion on Community Smells SEIS - Software Engineering in Society Stefano Lambiase University of Salerno, Gemma Catolino Tilburg University & Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Damian Andrew Tamburri TU/e, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno, Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno Pre-print Media Attached | ||
05:15 5mTalk | Open Data Inclusion through Narrative Approaches SEIS - Software Engineering in Society | ||
05:20 5mTalk | GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source Technical Track Naomichi Shimada Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Tao Xiao Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
05:25 5mTalk | Big Data = Big Insights? Operationalizing Brooks’ Law in a Massive GitHub Data Set Technical Track Christoph Gote Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Pavlin Mavrodiev Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Frank Schweitzer Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Ingo Scholtes Chair of Computer Science XV - Machine Learning for Complex Networks, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Pre-print Media Attached |
Thu 12 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
22:00 - 23:00 | Reuse and EconomicsNIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 3-even hours Chair(s): Rick Kazman University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | ||
22:00 5mTalk | CodeMatcher: Searching Code Based on Sequential Semantics of Important Query Words Journal-First Papers Chao Liu Chongqing University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, David Lo Singapore Management University, Zhiwei Liu Baidu Inc., Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, Shanping Li Zhejiang University Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
22:05 5mTalk | The best defense is a good defense: adapting negotiation methods for tackling pressure over software project estimates NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results Patricia Matsubara UFAM & UFMS, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Bruno Gadelha UFAM, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas Pre-print Media Attached | ||
22:10 5mTalk | The Unexplored Terrain of Compiler Warnings SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Gunnar Kudrjavets University of Groningen, Aditya Kumar Snap, Inc., Nachiappan Nagappan Microsoft Research, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
22:15 5mTalk | SnR: Constraint-Based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets Technical Track Yiwen Dong University of Waterloo, Tianxiao Gu Tiktok Inc., Yongqiang Tian University of Waterloo, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo Pre-print Media Attached | ||
22:20 5mTalk | Cross-Domain Deep Code Search with Few-Shot Learning Technical Track Yitian Chai School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle, Beijun Shen School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China DOI Pre-print Media Attached File Attached | ||
22:25 5mTalk | GitHub Sponsors: Exploring a New Way to Contribute to Open Source Technical Track Naomichi Shimada Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Tao Xiao Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology DOI Pre-print Media Attached |