To Disengage or Not to Disengage: A Look at Contributor Disengagement in Open Source Software
Philip Gray · 2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) · 2022
Contributors are vital to the sustainability of open source ecosystems, and disengagement threatens that sustainability. We seek to both strengthen and protect open source communities by creating a more robust way of defining and identifying contributor disengagement in these communities. To do this, we collected a large amount of grey literature relating to contributor disengagement and performed a qualitative analysis in order to better our understanding of why contributors disengage.