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Developer Reactions to Protestware in Open Source Software: The cases of color.js and es5.ext
Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4
There is growing concern about maintainers self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". Our objective is to u…
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…
Quantifying and Characterizing Clones of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems
Tao Xiao, Zhili Zeng, Dong Wang +3
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) annotates development decisions that intentionally exchange long-term software artifact quality for short-term goals. Recent work explores the e…
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…