Peopleware: productive projects and teams
Peopleware: productive projects and teams
People, Organizations, and Process Improvement
IEEE Software
"Breaking the code", moving between private and public work in collaborative software development
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
The scope and importance of human interruption in human-computer interaction design
Human-Computer Interaction
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Social transparency in networked information exchange: a theoretical framework
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Keeping track of a constantly updating stream of news items on social networking enabled software development sites may be difficult. We analyzed the actions of 544 GitHub.com developers working across 5,657 projects to examine how the network of developers and projects influence where developers choose to contribute. Our analyses revealed the existence of a group of extremely well connected developers, or rockstars. We found that these rockstars': 1) actions have a greater influence on their followers compared to regular developers, 2) type of action affect their followers differently, 3) influence on followers may depend on a project's age, 4) increased activity on a project increases activity by followers, and 5) followers use as guides to projects to work on. We discuss the implications of these findings to the design of software development environments.