3 papers
cs.SE2026
Decoupling Code Complexity from Newcomer Participation: A Causal Study of AI Coding Agent Adoption in OSS
Weiwei Xu, Xuanning Cui, Hengzhi Ye +1
Open-source projects depend on a steady inflow of newcomers. A growing concern is that AI coding agents (tools such as Cursor and Claude Code that write code from natural-language…
cs.SE2026
The First Issue Matters: Linking Task-Level Characteristics to Long-Term Newcomer Retention in OSS
Yichen Hao, Weiwei Xu, Kai Gao +1
Sustaining newcomer participation is critical for the long-term health of open-source communities. Although prior research has explored various task recommendation approaches to he…
cs.SE2025
Small Changes, Big Trouble: Demystifying and Parsing License Variants for Incompatibility Detection in the PyPI Ecosystem
Weiwei Xu, Hengzhi Ye, Kai Gao +1
Open-source licenses establish the legal foundation for software reuse, yet license variants, including both modified standard licenses and custom-created alternatives, introduce s…