TY - GEN
T1 - GitHub Developers Use Rockstars to Overcome Overflow of News
AU - Lee, Michael J.
AU - Ferwerda, Bruce
AU - Choi, Junghong
AU - Hahn, Jungpil
AU - Moon, Jae Yun
AU - Kim, Jinwoo
PY - 2013/4/27
Y1 - 2013/4/27
N2 - Keeping track of a constantly updating stream of news items on social networking enabled software development sites may be difficult. We analyzed the actions of 544 GitHub.com developers working across 5,657 projects to examine how the network of developers and projects influence where developers choose to contribute. Our analyses revealed the existence of a group of extremely well connected developers, or rockstars. We found that these rockstars’: 1) actions have a greater influence on their followers compared to regular developers, 2) type of action affect their followers differently, 3) influence on followers may depend on a project’s age, 4) increased activity on a project increases activity by followers, and 5) followers use as guides to projects to work on. We discuss the implications of these findings to the design of software development environments.
AB - Keeping track of a constantly updating stream of news items on social networking enabled software development sites may be difficult. We analyzed the actions of 544 GitHub.com developers working across 5,657 projects to examine how the network of developers and projects influence where developers choose to contribute. Our analyses revealed the existence of a group of extremely well connected developers, or rockstars. We found that these rockstars’: 1) actions have a greater influence on their followers compared to regular developers, 2) type of action affect their followers differently, 3) influence on followers may depend on a project’s age, 4) increased activity on a project increases activity by followers, and 5) followers use as guides to projects to work on. We discuss the implications of these findings to the design of software development environments.
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U2 - 10.1145/2468356.2468381
DO - 10.1145/2468356.2468381
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85037807962
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 133
EP - 138
BT - CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A2 - Beaudouin-Lafon, Michel
A2 - Baudisch, Patrick
A2 - Mackay, Wendy E.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013
Y2 - 27 April 2013 through 2 May 2013
ER -