3 papers
cs.SE2026
MALTA: Maintenance-Aware Technical Lag, Estimation to Address Software Abandonment
Shane K. Panter, Nasir U. Eisty
Context: Open-source ecosystems rely on sustained package maintenance. When maintenance slows or stops, Technical Lag (TL), the gap between installed and latest dependency versions…
cs.SE2026
Technical Lag as Latent Technical Debt: A Rapid Review
Shane K. Panter, Nasir U. Eisty
Context: Technical lag accumulates when software systems fail to keep pace with technological advancements, leading to a deterioration in software quality. Objective: This paper ai…
cs.SE2025
PVAC: Package Version Activity Categorizer, Leveraging Semantic Versioning in a Heterogeneous System
Shane K. Panter, Luke Hindman, Nasir U. Eisty
Context: Modern open-source software ecosystems, such as those managed by GNU/Linux distributions, are composed of numerous packages developed independently by diverse communities.…