Damien Legay

On the impact of pull request decisions on future contributions

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The pull-based development process has become prevalent on platforms such as GitHub as a form of distributed software development. Potential contributors can create and submit a set of changes to a software project through pull …

On the Usage of Badges in Open Source Packages on GitHub.

2019 · ORBi UMONS

Continuously attracting contributors is key to the health of open source software projects. The appearance of badges in online collaborative development platforms affords maintainers the opportunity to advertise the quality of their project to potential …