Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Women are underrepresented in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, as a result of which,
not only do women lose career and skill development opportunities, but the projects …

Software processes comprise many steps; coding is followed by building, integration testing,
system testing, deployment, operations, among others. Software process integration and …

Online toxicity is ubiquitous across the internet and its negative impact on the people and
that online communities that it effects has been well documented. However, toxicity …

The pull-based development model, enabled by git and popularised by collaborative coding
platforms like Bit Bucket, Gitorius, and GitHub, is widely used in distributed software teams …

Sustained participation by contributors in opensource software is critical to the survival of
open-source projects and can provide career advancement benefits to individual …

In fast-paced, reuse-heavy, and distributed software development, the transparency
provided by social coding platforms like GitHub is essential to decision making. Developers …

The team aspects of software engineering have been a subject of great interest since early
work by Fred Brooks and others: how well do people work together in teams? why do people …

Source code hosting websites (code forges) have recently changed to more social
environments, and the contribution process evolved to the so-called pull-based …

Open-source projects do not exist in a vacuum. They benefit from reusing other projects and
themselves are being reused by others, creating complex networks of interdependencies, ie …