Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS

Luiz Felipe Dias; Caio Barbosa; Gustavo Pinto; Igor Steinmacher; Baldoino Fonseca; Marcio Ribeiro; Christoph Treude; Daniel Alencar Da Costa

doi:10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205

Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS

Luiz Felipe Dias, Caio Barbosa, Gustavo Pinto, Igor Steinmacher, Baldoino Fonseca, Marcio Ribeiro, Christoph Treude, Daniel Alencar Da Costa

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Abstract

In this paper we characterize the contributions made by employees (developers that work for GitHub, the company) and volunteers (developers that use GitHub, the platform) to OSS projects maintained by GitHub (the company) on GitHub (the platform). By mining activities performed in five well-known company-owned OSS projects, we investigate what they do and when they do it. We found that the majority of the volunteers' contributions are related to reengineering (e.g., refactoring), while employees focus more on management (e.g., documentation). When it comes to the working hours, we found that contributions are made mostly from 9am-5pm, even for the volunteers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020
Editors	Michael Homer, Felienne Hermans, Steven Tanimoto, Craig Anslow
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728169019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205
State	Published - Aug 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020 - Virtual, Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: Aug 10 2020 → Aug 14 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC
Volume	2020-August
ISSN (Print)	1943-6092
ISSN (Electronic)	1943-6106

Conference

Conference	2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Virtual, Dunedin
Period	8/10/20 → 8/14/20

Keywords

Employees
Open Source Software
Volunteers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Theory and Mathematics
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Dias, L. F., Barbosa, C., Pinto, G., Steinmacher, I., Fonseca, B., Ribeiro, M., Treude, C., & Da Costa, D. A. (2020). Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS. In M. Homer, F. Hermans, S. Tanimoto, & C. Anslow (Eds.), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020 Article 9127205 (Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC; Vol. 2020-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205

Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS. / Dias, Luiz Felipe; Barbosa, Caio; Pinto, Gustavo et al.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020. ed. / Michael Homer; Felienne Hermans; Steven Tanimoto; Craig Anslow. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. 9127205 (Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC; Vol. 2020-August).

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Dias, LF, Barbosa, C, Pinto, G, Steinmacher, I, Fonseca, B, Ribeiro, M, Treude, C & Da Costa, DA 2020, Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS. in M Homer, F Hermans, S Tanimoto & C Anslow (eds), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020., 9127205, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC, vol. 2020-August, IEEE Computer Society, 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020, Virtual, Dunedin, New Zealand, 8/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205

Dias LF, Barbosa C, Pinto G, Steinmacher I, Fonseca B, Ribeiro M et al. Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS. In Homer M, Hermans F, Tanimoto S, Anslow C, editors, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020. IEEE Computer Society. 2020. 9127205. (Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC). doi: 10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127205

Dias, Luiz Felipe ; Barbosa, Caio ; Pinto, Gustavo et al. / Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and When Employees and Volunteers Contribute to OSS. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2020. editor / Michael Homer ; Felienne Hermans ; Steven Tanimoto ; Craig Anslow. IEEE Computer Society, 2020. (Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC).

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