The Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak
55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
; 2022-January:316-325, 2022.
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| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2296655
ABSTRACT
We leverage the lockdown of Wuhan, China in January 2020 in response to COVID-19 as a natural experiment to study its impacts on individuals' contributions to open source software (OSS) on GitHub - the world's largest OSS platform. We find that Wuhan developers' contributions decreased by 10.2% relative to those in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HMT) regions in the five weeks after the lockdown. Moreover, the contributions of Wuhan developers who interacted more with local developers on GitHub were reduced more after the lockdown. We conjecture that the lack of face-to-face (F2F) collaboration for Wuhan developers is the main driver of their reduced contributions, providing important insights for OSS platforms and stakeholders. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
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2022
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