Effect of Newcomers' Supportive Strategies on Open Source Projects Socio-Technical Activities
Shahab Bayati · 2019
The success of open source software (OSS) projects are studied in previous research. This paper focused on the effect of newcomers supportive strategies in OSS projects on the success level of the project. This study analyzes the socio-technical commitment to the project as a proxy for success. Projects' data is collected from GitHub.com to empirically test the research model. Results show the importance of newcomers' supportive strategies on the different aspects of OSS projects success. Also, we have tested the effect of programming language diversity and project profile health on the success of a project. The outcome of this study has both managerial and practical implications.