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On the impact of pull request decisions on future contributions
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
The pull-based development process has become prevalent on platforms such as GitHub as a form of distributed software development. Potential contributors can create and submit a se…
Breaking the borders: an investigation of cross-ecosystem software packages
Eleni Constantinou, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Software ecosystems are collections of projects that are developed and evolve together in the same environment. Existing literature investigates software ecosystems as isolated ent…
On the evolution of technical lag in the npm package dependency network
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Eleni Constantinou
Software packages developed and distributed through package managers extensively depend on other packages. These dependencies are regularly updated, for example to add new features…