To disengage or not to disengage: a look at contributor disengagement in open source software
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Contributors are vital to the sustainability of open source ecosystems, and disengagement threatens that sustainability. We seek to both strengthen and protect open source communities by creating a more robust way of defining and identifying contributor disengagement in these communities. To do this, we collected a large amount of grey literature relating to contributor disengagement and performed a qualitative analysis in order to better our understanding of why contributors disengage.
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