Variant Forks -- Motivations and Impediments

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Abstract

Replication package for the SANER 2022 paper with the same title, which reports on the results of an exploratory qualitative analysis on the motivations behind variants creation and maintenance. We surveyed 105 maintainers of different active open source variant projects hosted on GitHub. Our study extends previous findings, identifying a number of fine-grained common motivations for launching a variant fork and listing concrete impediments for maintaining the co-existing projects.
Date made available25 Mar 2022
PublisherZenodo
Date of data production25 Mar 2022 -

Keywords

  • forks
  • software repositories
  • mining software repositories
  • software engineering

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  • 1 Conference paper

  • Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments

    Businge, J., Zerouali, A., Decan, A., Mens, T., Demeyer, S. & De Roover, C., 2022, Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022). IEEE, p. 867-877 11 p. (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2022).

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