Refactoring from 9 to 5? What and when employees and volunteers contribute to OSS

• Main Authors: DIAS, Luiz Felipe, BARBOSA, Caio, PINTO, Gustavo, STEINMACHER, Igor, FONSECA, Baldoino, RIBEIRO, Márcio, TREUDE, Christoph, DA COSTA, Daniel Alencar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Employees; Open Source Software; Volunteers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8909; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9912/viewcontent/vlhcc20.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper we characterize the contributions made by employees (developers that work for GitHub, the company) and volunteers (developers that use GitHub, the platform) to OSS projects maintained by GitHub (the company) on GitHub (the platform). By mining activities performed in five well-known co...