TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the ecosystem of software developers on github and other platforms
AU - Wu, Yu
AU - Kropczynski, Jessica
AU - Shih, Patrick C.
AU - Carroll, John M.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - GitHub provides various social features for developers to collaborate with others. Those features are important for developers to coordinate their work (Dabbish et al., 2012; Marlow et al., 2013). We hypothesized that the social system of GitHub users was bound by system interactions such that contributing to similar code repositories would lead to users following one another on GitHub or vice versa. Using a quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlation, however, only a weak correlation among followship and production activities (code, issue, and wiki contributions) was found. Survey with GitHub users revealed an ecosystem on the Internet for software developers, which includes many platforms, such as Forrst, Twitter, and Hacker News, among others. Developers make social introductions and other interactions on these platforms and engage with one anther on GitHub. Due to these preliminary findings, we describe GitHub as a part of a larger ecosystem of developer interactions.
AB - GitHub provides various social features for developers to collaborate with others. Those features are important for developers to coordinate their work (Dabbish et al., 2012; Marlow et al., 2013). We hypothesized that the social system of GitHub users was bound by system interactions such that contributing to similar code repositories would lead to users following one another on GitHub or vice versa. Using a quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlation, however, only a weak correlation among followship and production activities (code, issue, and wiki contributions) was found. Survey with GitHub users revealed an ecosystem on the Internet for software developers, which includes many platforms, such as Forrst, Twitter, and Hacker News, among others. Developers make social introductions and other interactions on these platforms and engage with one anther on GitHub. Due to these preliminary findings, we describe GitHub as a part of a larger ecosystem of developer interactions.
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U2 - 10.1145/2556420.2556483
DO - 10.1145/2556420.2556483
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84898980963
SN - 9781450325417
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 265
EP - 268
BT - CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
Y2 - 15 February 2014 through 19 February 2014
ER -