TY - GEN
T1 - OpenRank Leaderboard
T2 - 2024 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-SEIP 2024
AU - Zhao, Shengyu
AU - Xia, Xiaoya
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
AU - Li, Xiaozhou
AU - Lenarduzzi, Valentina
AU - Taibi, Davide
AU - Wang, Rong
AU - Wang, Wei
AU - Tian, Chunqi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2024 held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2024/4/14
Y1 - 2024/4/14
N2 - Open source has revolutionized how software development is carried out, with a growing number of individuals and organizations contributing to open source projects. As the importance of open source continues to grow, companies also expect to grow thriving and sustainable open source communities with continued contributions and better collaborations. In this study, we applied the contribution leaderboard to seven open source projects initiated by Alibaba. We conducted a case study to investigate the perceptions and facts regarding how to motivate collaboration through gamification. Specifically, we employed a social network algorithm, OpenRank, to evaluate and steer developers' contributions. We validated the effectiveness of OpenRank by comparing it with other evaluation metrics and surveying developers. Through semi-structured interviews and project metric analysis, we found that the OpenRank Leaderboard can promote transparent communication environments, a better community atmosphere, and improved collaboration behavior.
AB - Open source has revolutionized how software development is carried out, with a growing number of individuals and organizations contributing to open source projects. As the importance of open source continues to grow, companies also expect to grow thriving and sustainable open source communities with continued contributions and better collaborations. In this study, we applied the contribution leaderboard to seven open source projects initiated by Alibaba. We conducted a case study to investigate the perceptions and facts regarding how to motivate collaboration through gamification. Specifically, we employed a social network algorithm, OpenRank, to evaluate and steer developers' contributions. We validated the effectiveness of OpenRank by comparing it with other evaluation metrics and surveying developers. Through semi-structured interviews and project metric analysis, we found that the OpenRank Leaderboard can promote transparent communication environments, a better community atmosphere, and improved collaboration behavior.
KW - gamification
KW - leaderboard
KW - open source contribution
KW - social network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195262946&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3639477.3639734
DO - 10.1145/3639477.3639734
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85195262946
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 346
EP - 357
BT - Proceedings - 2024 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 14 April 2024 through 20 April 2024
ER -