GitHub OSS Governance File Dataset
GitHub OSS Governance File Dataset
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DOI：
10.1109/msr59073.2023.00089
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2023-04
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通讯作者：
Yibo Yan;Seth Frey;Amy Zhang;V. Filkov;Likang Yin
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作者：
Yibo Yan;Seth Frey;Amy Zhang;V. Filkov;Likang Yin
在过去的几十年里，开源软件(OSS)已经成为工业界和学术界的宝贵资源。尽管他们开发了创新的结构来支持这些项目，但开放源码软件项目及其社区有着复杂的需求，并面临着被抛弃等风险。为了管理内部社会动态和社区演变，OSS开发人员社区已经开始依赖于将角色和责任分配给不同社区参与者的书面治理文档。为了便于研究正式治理文档对OSS项目和社区的影响和有效性，我们提供了一个包含GOVERNANCE.MD治理文件的710个由GitHub托管的OSS项目的纵向数据集。此数据集包括对存储库的所有提交、在GitHub上创建的所有问题和评论，以及对治理文件的所有修订。我们希望它的推出将培养更多的研究兴趣，研究OSS社区如何治理他们的项目，以及治理文件对社区的影响。
Open-source Software (OSS) has become a valuable resource in both industry and academia over the last few decades. Despite the innovative structures they develop to support the projects, OSS projects and their communities have complex needs and face risks such as getting abandoned. To manage the internal social dynamics and community evolution, OSS developer communities have started relying on written governance documents that assign roles and responsibilities to different community actors.To facilitate the study of the impact and effectiveness of formal governance documents on OSS projects and communities, we present a longitudinal dataset of 710 GitHub-hosted OSS projects with GOVERNANCE.MD governance files. This dataset includes all commits made to the repository, all issues and comments created on GitHub, and all revisions made to the governance file. We hope its availability will foster more research interest in studying how OSS communities govern their projects and the impact of governance files on communities.