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Abstract | ||
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Communication is essential in software engineering. Especially in distributed open-source teams, communication needs to be supported by channels including mailing lists, forums, issue trackers, and chat systems. Yet, we do not have a clear understanding of which communication channels stakeholders in open-source projects use. In this study, we fill the knowledge gap by investigating a statistically representative sample of 400 GitHub projects. We discover the used communication channels by regular expressions on project data. We show that (1) half of the GitHub projects use observable communication channels; (2) GitHub Issues, e-mail addresses, and the modern chat system Gitter are the most common channels; (3) mailing lists are only in place five and have a lower market share than all modern chat systems combined. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2018 | 10.1145/3183440.3194951 | PROCEEDINGS 2018 IEEE/ACM 40TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - COMPANION (ICSE-COMPANION |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
communication, open-source, mining software repositories | BitTorrent tracker,World Wide Web,Regular expression,Systems engineering,Computer science,Communication channel,Market share,Mining software repositories | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
abs/1803.09529 | 2574-1926 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.35 | 0 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verena Käfer | 1 | 1 | 1.37 |
| Daniel Graziotin | 2 | 197 | 18.67 |
| Ivan Bogicevic | 3 | 5 | 1.89 |
| Stefan Wagner | 4 | 748 | 55.74 |
| Jasmin Ramadani | 5 | 14 | 4.66 |