%0 Conference Paper %1 Gousios:2014:ESP:2568225.2568260 %A Gousios, Georgios %A Pinzger, Martin %A Deursen, Arie van %B Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering %C New York, NY, USA %D 2014 %I ACM %K reticollab1415 version %P 345--355 %R 10.1145/2568225.2568260 %T An Exploratory Study of the Pull-based Software Development Model %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2568225.2568260 %X The advent of distributed version control systems has led to the development of a new paradigm for distributed software development; instead of pushing changes to a central repository, developers pull them from other repositories and merge them locally. Various code hosting sites, notably Github, have tapped on the opportunity to facilitate pull-based development by offering workflow support tools, such as code reviewing systems and integrated issue trackers. In this work, we explore how pull-based software development works, first on the GHTorrent corpus and then on a carefully selected sample of 291 projects. We find that the pull request model offers fast turnaround, increased opportunities for community engagement and decreased time to incorporate contributions. We show that a relatively small number of factors affect both the decision to merge a pull request and the time to process it. We also examine the reasons for pull request rejection and find that technical ones are only a small minority. %@ 978-1-4503-2756-5

@inproceedings{Gousios:2014:ESP:2568225.2568260, abstract = {The advent of distributed version control systems has led to the development of a new paradigm for distributed software development; instead of pushing changes to a central repository, developers pull them from other repositories and merge them locally. Various code hosting sites, notably Github, have tapped on the opportunity to facilitate pull-based development by offering workflow support tools, such as code reviewing systems and integrated issue trackers. In this work, we explore how pull-based software development works, first on the GHTorrent corpus and then on a carefully selected sample of 291 projects. We find that the pull request model offers fast turnaround, increased opportunities for community engagement and decreased time to incorporate contributions. We show that a relatively small number of factors affect both the decision to merge a pull request and the time to process it. We also examine the reasons for pull request rejection and find that technical ones are only a small minority.}, acmid = {2568260}, added-at = {2014-10-04T21:21:09.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Gousios, Georgios and Pinzger, Martin and Deursen, Arie van}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/222ee63982d820c0236a0cd4fce7dd031/lanubile}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering}, description = {An exploratory study of the pull-based software development model}, doi = {10.1145/2568225.2568260}, interhash = {d149c233c430560e822e86dd457bb84e}, intrahash = {22ee63982d820c0236a0cd4fce7dd031}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2756-5}, keywords = {reticollab1415 version}, location = {Hyderabad, India}, numpages = {11}, pages = {345--355}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ICSE 2014}, timestamp = {2014-10-04T21:21:09.000+0200}, title = {An Exploratory Study of the Pull-based Software Development Model}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2568225.2568260}, year = 2014 }