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10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job
Richard Littauer, Greg Wilson, Jan Ainali +19
Loss of key personnel has always been a risk for research software projects. Key members of the team may have to step away due to illness or burnout, to care for a family member, f…
The Introduction of README and CONTRIBUTING Files in Open Source Software Development
Matthew Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, Sohyeon Hwang +1
README and CONTRIBUTING files can serve as the first point of contact for potential contributors to free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) projects. Prominent open source soft…
Engineering Formality and Software Risk in Debian Python Packages
Matthew Gaughan, Kaylea Champion, Sohyeon Hwang
While free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) is critical to global computing infrastructure, the maintenance of widely-adopted FLOSS packages is dependent on volunteer develop…
Sources of Underproduction in Open Source Software
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Because open source software relies on individuals who select their own tasks, it is often underproduced -- a term used by software engineering researchers to describe when a piece…
Qualities of Quality: A Tertiary Review of Software Quality Measurement Research
Kaylea Champion, Sejal Khatri, Benjamin Mako Hill
This paper presents a tertiary review of software quality measurement research. To conduct this review, we examined an initial dataset of 7,811 articles and found 75 relevant and h…
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative effort…