@inproceedings{0311f8a81212407c9f0098760a6a1908,
title = "GitHub Developers Use Rockstars to Overcome Overflow of News",
abstract = "Keeping track of a constantly updating stream of news items on social networking enabled software development sites may be difficult. We analyzed the actions of 544 GitHub.com developers working across 5,657 projects to examine how the network of developers and projects influence where developers choose to contribute. Our analyses revealed the existence of a group of extremely well connected developers, or rockstars. We found that these rockstars{\textquoteright}: 1) actions have a greater influence on their followers compared to regular developers, 2) type of action affect their followers differently, 3) influence on followers may depend on a project{\textquoteright}s age, 4) increased activity on a project increases activity by followers, and 5) followers use as guides to projects to work on. We discuss the implications of these findings to the design of software development environments.",
keywords = "GitHub, Open source, Social coding, Social computing",
author = "Lee, {Michael J.} and Bruce Ferwerda and Junghong Choi and Jungpil Hahn and Moon, {Jae Yun} and Jinwoo Kim",
year = "2013",
month = apr,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/2468356.2468381",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "133--138",
editor = "Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Patrick Baudisch and Mackay, {Wendy E.}",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
note = "31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013 ; Conference date: 27-04-2013 Through 02-05-2013",
}