Recommending mentors to software project newcomers

Author

Steinmacher, Igor ; Wiese, Igor Scaliante ; Gerosa, Marco Aurélio

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Coordination, Fed. Univ. of Technol. - Parana (UTFPR), Campo Mourão, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

4-4 June 2012

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

67

Abstract

Open Source Software projects success depends on the continuous influx of newcomers and their contributions. Newcomers play an important role as they are the potential future developers, but they face difficulties and obstacles when initiating their interaction with a project, resulting in a high amount of withdrawals. This paper presents a recommendation system aiming to support newcomers finding the most appropriate project member to mentor them in a technical task. The proposed system uses temporal and social aspects of developer´s behavior, in addition to recent contextual information to recommend the most suitable mentor at the moment.

Keywords

project management; public domain software; recommender systems; social aspects of automation; software engineering; software management; contextual information; continuous influx; developer behavior; future developers; open source software projects; project interaction; project member; recommendation system; recommending mentors; social aspects; software project newcomers; suitable mentor; temporal aspect; Computer bugs; Conferences; Electronic mail; Postal services; Software; Software engineering; USA Councils; mentor recommendation; newcomers; open source software; recommendation system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE), 2012 Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1758-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSSE.2012.6233413

Filename

6233413