Understanding the role of external pull requests in the NPM ecosystem

• Main Authors: MAEPRASART, Vittunyuta, WATTANAKRIENGKRAI, Supatsara, KULA, Raula Gaikovina, TREUDE, Christoph, MATSUMOTO, Kenichi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Third-party libraries; Pull Requests; OSS sustainability; Software Ecosystem; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8797; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9800/viewcontent/s10664_023_10315_w.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The risk to using third-party libraries in a software application is that much needed maintenance is solely carried out by library maintainers. These libraries may rely on a core team of maintainers (who might be a single maintainer that is unpaid and overworked) to serve a massive client user-base....