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Conference Paper: The Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

TitleThe Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Authors
HU, JHu, DYang, XChau, MCL
KeywordsCollaboration for Data Science
Contributions
Covid-19
Face-to-face collaboration
Lockdown
Issue Date2022
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of IT Management.
Citation
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022) (Online), January 3-7, 2022. In Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, p. 316-325 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.038
AbstractWe leverage the lockdown of Wuhan, China in January 2020 in response to COVID-19 as a natural experiment to study its impacts on individuals’ contributions to open source software (OSS) on GitHub – the world’s largest OSS platform. We find that Wuhan developers’ contributions decreased by 10.2% relative to those in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HMT) regions in the five weeks after the lockdown. Moreover, the contributions of Wuhan developers who interacted more with local developers on GitHub were reduced more after the lockdown. We conjecture that the lack of face-to-face (F2F) collaboration for Wuhan developers is the main driver of their reduced contributions, providing important insights for OSS platforms and stakeholders.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/314826

 

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dc.contributor.authorHU, J-
dc.contributor.authorHu, D-
dc.contributor.authorYang, X-
dc.contributor.authorChau, MCL-
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-05T09:35:18Z-
dc.date.available2022-08-05T09:35:18Z-
dc.date.issued2022-
dc.identifier.citationHawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022) (Online), January 3-7, 2022. In Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, p. 316-325-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/314826-
dc.description.abstractWe leverage the lockdown of Wuhan, China in January 2020 in response to COVID-19 as a natural experiment to study its impacts on individuals’ contributions to open source software (OSS) on GitHub – the world’s largest OSS platform. We find that Wuhan developers’ contributions decreased by 10.2% relative to those in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HMT) regions in the five weeks after the lockdown. Moreover, the contributions of Wuhan developers who interacted more with local developers on GitHub were reduced more after the lockdown. We conjecture that the lack of face-to-face (F2F) collaboration for Wuhan developers is the main driver of their reduced contributions, providing important insights for OSS platforms and stakeholders.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of IT Management.-
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-
dc.subjectCollaboration for Data Science-
dc.subjectContributions-
dc.subjectCovid-19-
dc.subjectFace-to-face collaboration-
dc.subjectLockdown-
dc.titleThe Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak-
dc.typeConference_Paper-
dc.identifier.emailChau, MCL: mchau@business.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityChau, MCL=rp01051-
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.038-
dc.identifier.hkuros334737-
dc.identifier.spage316-
dc.identifier.epage325-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-

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