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Is this GitHub Project Maintained? Measuring the Level of Maintenance Activity of Open-Source Projects
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciano Milen +1
Context: GitHub hosts an impressive number of high-quality OSS projects. However, selecting "the right tool for the job" is a challenging task, because we do not have precise infor…
Identifying Unmaintained Projects in GitHub
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciana L. Silva +1
Background: Open source software has an increasing importance in modern software development. However, there is also a growing concern on the sustainability of such projects, which…
Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciana L. Silva +1
The maintenance and evolution of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects demand the constant attraction of core developers. In this paper, we report the results of a surve…
Why Modern Open Source Projects Fail
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente
Open source is experiencing a renaissance period, due to the appearance of modern platforms and workflows for developing and maintaining public code. As a result, developers are cr…
On the Popularity of GitHub Applications: A Preliminary Note
Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente, Andre Hora +1
GitHub is the world's largest collection of open source software. Therefore, it is important both to software developers and users to compare and track the popularity of GitHub rep…