To Disengage or Not to Disengage: A Look at Contributor Disengagement in Open Source Software

kaestner@cs.cmu.edu (P. Gray)
Tue, 31 May 2022 12:28:28 GMT

Philip Gray. To Disengage or Not to Disengage: A Look at Contributor Disengagement in Open Source Software. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (Companion) (ICSE-SRC), pages 328--330, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2022. ICSE student research competition.

Contributors are vital to the sustainability of open source ecosys- tems, and disengagement threatens that sustainability. We seek to protect and strengthen open source communities through a better and more robust way of defining and identifying contributor dis- engagement in open source communities. To do this we, collected a large amount of gray literature on contributor disengagement, and performed a qualitative analysis to better our understanding of why contributors disengage.