Cognitive processes in program comprehension
Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers
Program understanding: challenge for the 1990's
IBM Systems Journal
The ramp-up problem in software projects: a case study of how software immigrants naturalize
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Characteristics of Open Source Projects
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Populating a Release History Database from Version Control and Bug Tracking Systems
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Group awareness in distributed software development
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Detecting Patch Submission and Acceptance in OSS Projects
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Can developer-module networks predict failures?
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Latent social structure in open source projects
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Understanding the process of participating in open source communities
FLOSS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
The role of patch review in software evolution: an analysis of the mozilla firefox
Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
On the central role of mailing lists in open source projects: an exploratory study
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Entering the circle of trust: developer initiation as committers in open-source projects
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
The onion patch: migration in open source ecosystems
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Are popular classes more defect prone?
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Who is going to mentor newcomers in open source projects?
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Governance practices and software maintenance: A study of open source projects
Decision Support Systems
Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
The MSR cookbook: mining a decade of research
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
How social Q&A sites are changing knowledge sharing in open source software communities
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Analyzing the open source communities' lifecycle with communication data
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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Open source software is built by teams of volunteers. Each project has a core team of developers, who have the authority to commit changes to the repository; this team is the elite, committed foundation of the project, selected through a meritocratic process from a larger number of people who participate on the mailing list. Most projects carefully regulate admission of outsiders to full developer privileges; some projects even have formal descriptions of this process. Understanding the factors that influence the "who, how and when" of this process is critical, both for the sustainability of FLOSS projects, and for outside stakeholders who want to gain entry and succeed. In this paper we mount a quantitative case study of the process by which people join FLOSS projects, using data mined from the Apache web server, Postgres, and Python. We develop a theory of open source project joining, and evaluate this theory based on our data.