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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia
Wed 17 May 2023 14:15 - 14:30 at Meeting Room 109 - Developers' behaviors Chair(s): Brittany Johnson

Sustainable Open Source Software (OSS) projects are characterized by the ability to attract new project members and maintain an energetic project community. Building sustainable OSS projects from a nascent state requires effective project governance and socio-technical structure to be interleaved, in a complex and dynamic process. Although individual disciplines have studied each separately, little is known about how governance and software development work together in practice toward sustainability. Prior work has shown that many OSS projects experience large, episodic changes over short periods of time, which can propel them or drag them down. However, sustainable projects typically manage to come out unscathed from such changes, while other projects do not. The natural questions arise: Can we identify the back-and-forth between governance and socio-technical structure that lead to sustainability following episodic events? And, how about those that do not lead to sustainability?

From data of commits and email traces of 262 Apache Software Foundation (ASF) incubator projects, here we employ a large-scale empirical study to characterize episodic changes in socio-technical aspects measured by Change Intervals (CI), governance rules and regulations in a form of Institutional Statements (IS), and the temporal relationships between them. We find that sustainable projects during episodic changes can adapt themselves to institutional statements more efficiently, and that institutional discussions can lead to episodic changes intervals in socio-technical aspects of the projects, and vice versa. In practice, these results can provide timely guidance beyond socio-technical considerations, adding rules and regulations in the mix, toward a unified analytical framework for OSS project sustainability.

Wed 17 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

13:45 - 15:15
13:45
15m
Talk
Is It Enough to Recommend Tasks to Newcomers? Understanding Mentoring on Good First Issues
Technical Track
Xin Tan Beihang University,, Yiran Chen Beihang University, Haohua Wu Beihang University, Minghui Zhou Peking University, Li Zhang Beihang University
Pre-print
14:00
15m
Talk
From Organizations to Individuals: Psychoactive Substance Use By Professional Programmers
Technical Track
Kaia Newman University of Michigan, Madeline Endres University of Michigan, Westley Weimer University of Michigan, Brittany Johnson George Mason University
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
On the Self-Governance and Episodic Changes in Apache Incubator Projects: An Empirical Study
Technical Track
Likang Yin University of California at Davis, Xiyu Zhang University of California Davis, Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA
14:30
15m
Talk
Socio-Technical Anti-Patterns in Building ML-Enabled Software: Insights from Leaders on the Forefront
Technical Track
Alina Mailach Leipzig University, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University
Pre-print
14:45
15m
Talk
Moving on from the software engineers' gambit: an approach to support the defense of software effort estimates
Technical Track
Patricia Matsubara Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Bruno Gadelha UFAM, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Pre-print
15:00
7m
Talk
iTrace-Toolkit: A Pipeline for Analyzing Eye-Tracking Data of Software Engineering Studies
DEMO - Demonstrations
Joshua Behler Kent State University, Praxis Weston Kent State University, Drew Guarnera College of Wooster, Bonita Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, Jonathan I. Maletic Kent State University
15:07
7m
Talk
Under the Bridge: Trolling and the Challenges of Recruiting Software Developers for Empirical Research Studies
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Ella Kokinda Clemson University, Makayla Moster Clemson University, James Dominic Clemson University, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University
Pre-print