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Nadia Eghbal
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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
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published
2020
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3 editions
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Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
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published
2016
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3 editions
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“One study found that in more than 85% of the open source projects the researchers examined on GitHub, less than 5% of developers were responsible for over 95% of code and social interactions.7”
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
“But just as tweets are easy to read and retweet without context as to who wrote them, code is easy to copy-paste without knowing, or caring, where it came from.”
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
“The bigger your project becomes, the harder it is to keep the innovation you had in the beginning of your project. Suddenly you have to consider hundreds of different use-cases . . . . Once you pass a few thousand active users, you’ll notice that helping your users takes more time than actually working on your project. People submit all kinds of issues, most of them aren’t actually issues, but feature requests or questions.84”
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
― Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
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