The gender gap is a significant concern facing the software industry as the development
becomes more geographically distributed. Widely shared reports indicate that gender …

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

Open source is experiencing a renaissance period, due to the appearance of modern
platforms and workflows for developing and maintaining public code. As a result, developers …

Motivation: Society's dependence on Open Source Software (OSS) and the communities that
maintain the OSS is ever-growing. So are the potential risks of, eg, vulnerabilities being …

The blockchain technology has potential applications in various areas such as smart-
contracts, Internet of Things (IoT), land registry, supply chain management, storing medical …

Context GitHub hosts an impressive number of high-quality OSS projects. However,
selecting “the right tool for the job” is a challenging task, because we do not have precise …

Background: Evolution of open source projects frequently depends on a small number of
core developers. The loss of such core developers might be detrimental for projects and …

Code review is a software quality assurance practice widely employed in both open source
and commercial software projects to detect defects, transfer knowledge and encourage …

Keeping a good influx of newcomers is critical for open source software projects' survival,
while newcomers face many barriers to contributing to a project for the first time. To support …

Abstract ROS, the Robot Operating System, offers a core set of software for operating robots
that can be extended by creating or using existing packages, making it possible to write …