GROUP ASSIGNMENT Deadline/Submit by: Tuesday, March 21 BEFORE CLASS (2:20 PM)
You are required to read the 2 papers below and prepare a short essay for each of them and a 4-min presentation for one of your choice:
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For the essays:
- focus on summarizing the problem, the goal, how the authors show what they are doing, what are the highlights.
- Please add a short paragraph with your opinion/impressions about the paper.
- Take the year it was published into account.
- Your essays should be no longer than 1 page (single column, times/arial 11 or 12)
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For the presentation:
- Focus on the essence (the topics listed for the essay are a good way to go)
- Be prepared to answer a few questions about the paper
- I will select 2 groups/day for presentation
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How to submit:
- Submit to BBLearn (please submit 1 per group and add the others' names)
- You must submit 2 essays (It can be a single file or 2 separate files) and the presentation.
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These are the paper you should read:
- E. Dias, P. Meirelles, F. Castor, I. Steinmacher, I. Wiese and G. Pinto, "What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects?," 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Madrid, ES, 2021, pp. 982-994, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00093.
- Miller, C., Widder, D. G., Kästner, C., & Vasilescu, B. "Why do people give up flossing? A study of contributor disengagement in open source" In IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (pp. 116-129). Springer, Cham. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/oss19.pdf