Google Open Source Publications

Google Open Source participates in and shares research that provides insights into open source projects, participants, and the health of the open source ecosystem as a whole.

What Brings You To Open Source? [2023]

Beyond the Repository: Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers [2023]

  • Casari, Amanda, Julia Ferraioli, and Juniper Lovato. “Beyond the Repository: Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers” Queue 21, no. 2 (2023): 14–34. https://doi.org/10.1145/3595879.

Determining Open Source Project Boundaries [2023]

The Ocean Mailing List Data Set [2022]

  • Warrick, Melanie, Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Jean-Gabriel Young, Amanda Casari, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and James Bagrow. “The Ocean Mailing List Data Set.” Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528479.

Which Contributions Count? Analysis of Attribution in Open Source [2021]

  • Young, Jean-Gabriel, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hebert-Dufresne, and James P. Bagrow. “Which Contributions Count? Analysis of Attribution in Open Source.” 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/msr52588.2021.00036.

Open Source Ecosystems Need Equitable Credit across Contributions [2021]

  • Casari, Amanda, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo, Jean-Gabriel Young, James P. Bagrow, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. “Open Source Ecosystems Need Equitable Credit across Contributions.” Nature Computational Science 1, no. 1 (2021): 2–2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-020-00011-w.