The Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak

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dc.contributor.authorHu, Jin
dc.contributor.authorHu, Daning
dc.contributor.authorYang, Xuan
dc.contributor.authorChau, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T17:18:31Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T17:18:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractWe 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.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.038
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/79368
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCollaboration for Data Science
dc.subjectcontributions
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjectface-to-face collaboration
dc.subjectlockdown
dc.subjectpublic goods
dc.titleThe Impacts of Lockdown on Open Source Software Contributions during the COVID-19 Outbreak
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