Recommending mentors to software project newcomers

Open Source Software projects success depends on the continuous influx of newcomers and their contributions. Newcomers play an important role as they are the potential future developers, but they face difficulties and obstacles when initiating their interaction with a project, resulting in a high am...

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Main Authors: Steinmacher, I., Wiese, I. S., Gerosa, M. A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer bugs
Conferences
Electronic mail
mentor recommendation
newcomers
open source software
Postal services
recommendation system
Software
Software engineering
USA Councils
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Summary:Open Source Software projects success depends on the continuous influx of newcomers and their contributions. Newcomers play an important role as they are the potential future developers, but they face difficulties and obstacles when initiating their interaction with a project, resulting in a high amount of withdrawals. This paper presents a recommendation system aiming to support newcomers finding the most appropriate project member to mentor them in a technical task. The proposed system uses temporal and social aspects of developer's behavior, in addition to recent contextual information to recommend the most suitable mentor at the moment.
ISSN:2327-0934
DOI:10.1109/RSSE.2012.6233413