Collaboration in open-source projects: myth or reality?
Yuriy Tymchuk, Andrea Mocci, Michele Lanza · 2014
One of the fundamental principles of open-source projects is that they foster collaboration among developers, disregarding their geographical location or personal background. When it comes to software repositories collaboration is a rather ephemeral phenomenon which lacks a clear definition, and it must therefore be mined and modeled. This throws up the question whether what is mined actually maps to reality.