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Communication and Code Dependency Effects on Software Code Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Herbsleb Hypothesis — HN submission

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:32:23 GMT

Why Software Projects Need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1000 Projects) [2020]

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Communication and Code Dependency Effects on Software Code Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Herbsleb Hypothesis — mentioned by ahazred8ta

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 01:05:02 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954#abstract -- A "hero" project is one where 80% or more of the contributions are made by the 20% of the developers. In the literature, such projects are deprecated since they might cause bottlenecks in development and communication. However, there is little empirical evidence on this matter. Further, recent studies show that such hero projects are very prevalent. Accordingly, this paper explores the effect of having heroes in project, from a code quality perspective. We identify the heroes developer communities in 1100+ open source GitHub projects. Based on the…

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Communication and Code Dependency Effects on Software Code Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Herbsleb Hypothesis — HN submission

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:26:26 GMT

Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects

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Communication and Code Dependency Effects on Software Code Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Herbsleb Hypothesis — HN submission

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:05:57 GMT

Why Software Projects Need Heroes

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