TY - GEN
T1 - Recommending mentors to software project newcomers
AU - Steinmacher, Igor
AU - Wiese, Igor Scaliante
AU - Gerosa, Marco Aurélio
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Open Source Software projects success depends on the continuous influx of newcomers and their contributions. Newcomers play an important role as they are the potential future developers, but they face difficulties and obstacles when initiating their interaction with a project, resulting in a high amount of withdrawals. This paper presents a recommendation system aiming to support newcomers finding the most appropriate project member to mentor them in a technical task. The proposed system uses temporal and social aspects of developer's behavior, in addition to recent contextual information to recommend the most suitable mentor at the moment.
AB - Open Source Software projects success depends on the continuous influx of newcomers and their contributions. Newcomers play an important role as they are the potential future developers, but they face difficulties and obstacles when initiating their interaction with a project, resulting in a high amount of withdrawals. This paper presents a recommendation system aiming to support newcomers finding the most appropriate project member to mentor them in a technical task. The proposed system uses temporal and social aspects of developer's behavior, in addition to recent contextual information to recommend the most suitable mentor at the moment.
KW - mentor recommendation
KW - newcomers
KW - open source software
KW - recommendation system
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U2 - 10.1109/RSSE.2012.6233413
DO - 10.1109/RSSE.2012.6233413
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864720070
SN - 9781467317597
T3 - 2012 3rd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, RSSE 2012 - Proceedings
SP - 63
EP - 67
BT - 2012 3rd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, RSSE 2012 - Proceedings
T2 - 2012 3rd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, RSSE 2012
Y2 - 4 June 2012 through 4 June 2012
ER -