GitHub OSS Governance File Dataset
Open-source Software (OSS) has become a valuable resource in both industry and academia over the last few decades. Despite the innovative structures they develop to support the projects, OSS projects and their communities have complex needs and face risks such as getting abandoned. To manage the internal social dynamics and community evolution, OSS developer communities have started relying on written governance documents that assign roles and responsibilities to different community actors.
To facilitate the study of the impact and effectiveness of formal governance documents on OSS projects and communities, we present a longitudinal dataset of 710 GitHub-hosted OSS projects with GOVERNANCE.MD governance files. This dataset includes all commits made to the repository, all issues and comments created on GitHub, and all revisions made to the governance file. We hope its availability will foster more research interest in studying how OSS communities govern their projects and the impact of governance files on communities.
Tue 16 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
14:35 - 15:15 | Human AspectsTechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Meeting Room 110 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
14:35 12mTalk | A Study of Gender Discussions in Mobile Apps Technical Papers Mojtaba Shahin RMIT University, Australia, Mansooreh Zahedi The Univeristy of Melbourne, Hourieh Khalajzadeh Deakin University, Australia, Ali Rezaei Nasab Shiraz University Pre-print | ||
14:47 12mTalk | Tell Me Who Are You Talking to and I Will Tell You What Issues Need Your Skills Technical Papers Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos Northern Arizona University, USA, Jacob Penney Northern Arizona University, João Felipe Pimentel Northern Arizona University, Igor Wiese Federal University of Technology, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Marco Gerosa Northern Arizona University Pre-print | ||
14:59 6mTalk | She Elicits Requirements and He Tests: Software Engineering Gender Bias in Large Language Models Technical Papers Pre-print Media Attached | ||
15:05 6mTalk | GitHub OSS Governance File Dataset Data and Tool Showcase Track Yibo Yan University of California, Davis, Seth Frey University of California, Davis, Amy Zhang University of Washington, Seattle, Vladimir Filkov University of California at Davis, USA, Likang Yin University of California at Davis Pre-print | ||