Context Numerous open source software projects are based on volunteers collaboration
and require a continuous influx of newcomers for their continuity. Newcomers face barriers …

Community-based Open Source Software (OSS) projects are usually self-organized and
dynamic, receiving contributions from distributed volunteers. Newcomer are important to the …

Abstract In the Open Source Software (OSS) paradigm, developers along with users form a
community for an OSS project as they share an interest in using/developing the project …

Research has revealed that significant barriers exist when entering Open-Source Software
(OSS) communities and that women disproportionately experience such barriers. However …

The success of an application programming interface (API) crucially depends on how well its
documentation meets the information needs of software developers. Previous research …

Recent studies suggest that well-known OSS projects struggle to find the needed workforce
to continue evolving---in part because external developers fail to overcome their first …

Newcomers' seamless onboarding is important for open collaboration communities,
particularly those that leverage outsiders' contributions to remain sustainable. Nevertheless …

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 …

This paper is intended to review a number of variancebased methods used in Sensitivity
Analysis (SA) to ascertain how much a model (numerical or otherwise) depends on each or …

Open source software represents an important form of digital infrastructure as well as a
pathway to technical careers for many developers, but women are drastically …