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Developer experience · Empirical analysis of top OSS communities and committer requirements

How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities?

ACM conference proceedings · 2024

Xin Tan, Yan Gong, Geyu Huang, Haohua Wu, Li Zhang

Summary

Commit rights depend on demonstrated code, review, documentation, and community participation, not only raw coding.

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Possible founder application

Publish transparent advancement criteria and reward non-code work.

Reported result

What the study found

Commit rights depend on demonstrated code, review, documentation, and community participation, not only raw coding.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Empirical analysis of top OSS communities and committer requirements

Sample and setting

Modern top open-source communities; exact project count/sample unavailable on abstract page.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Abstract/page evidence limits detailed sample and external-validity assessment.

Research sources

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