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Nigerian Software Engineer or American Data Scientist? GitHub Profile Recruitment Bias in Large Language Models
Takashi Nakano, Kazumasa Shimari, Raula Gaikovina Kula +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, demonstrating their ability not only to automate tedious tasks, but also to show some degree of proficiency in completin…
Contributing Back to the Ecosystem: A User Survey of NPM Developers
Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Christoph Treude, Raula Gaikovina Kula
With the rise of the library ecosystem (such as NPM for JavaScript and PyPI for Python), a developer has access to a multitude of library packages that they can adopt as dependenci…
Characterising Contributions that Coincide with Vulnerability Mitigation in NPM Libraries
Ruksit Rojpaisarnkit, Hathaichanok Damrongsiri, Christoph Treude +2
With the urgent need to secure supply chains among Open Source libraries, attention has focused on mitigating vulnerabilities detected in these libraries. Although awareness has im…
The Role of Code Proficiency in the Era of Generative AI
Gregorio Robles, Christoph Treude, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona +1
At the current pace of technological advancements, Generative AI models, including both Large Language Models and Large Multi-modal Models, are becoming integral to the developer w…
The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities
Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata +2
The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes m…
Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions
Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude +1
GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing comp…
Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware
Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4
Maintainers are now self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". In this poster, we present our approach to u…
"My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors
Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata +2
GitHub Sponsors was launched in 2019, enabling donations to open-source software developers to provide financial support, as per GitHub's slogan: "Invest in the projects you depend…