An empirical study of the first contributions of developers to open source projects on GitHub

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作者：
Subramanian, Vikram N. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Waterloo, SWAG Lab, Waterloo, ON, Canada
来源：
2020 ACM/IEEE 42ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: COMPANION PROCEEDINGS (ICSE-COMPANION 2020) | 2020年
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D O I：
10.1145/3377812.3382165
中图分类号：
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号：
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) is at an all-time high and for it to remain so it is vital for new developers to continually join and contribute to the OSS community. In this paper, to better understand the first time contributor, we study the characteristics of the first pull request (PR) made to an OSS project by developers. We mine GitHub for the first OSS PR of 3501 developers to study certain characteristics of PRs like language and size. We find that over 1/3rd of the PRs were in Java while C++ was very unpopular. A large fraction of PRs didn't even involve writing code, and were a mixture of trivial and non-trivial changes.
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