Culture and Breaking Change: A Survey of Values and Practices in 18 Open Source Software Ecosystems

Software ecosystems have become one of the most important ways to organize software development, and to maintain and reuse code packages. But coordination can be a major challenge in software ecosystems when packages change, since packages tend to be highly interdependent yet independently maintained. The culture of an ecosystem includes those values and practices associated with managing change. We conducted a survey of thousands of developers in more than a dozen ecosystems, asking them about the values and practices that make up their communities' distinctive cultures; as well as the perceived power of different stakeholders and perceived health of the community. This dataset release shares anonymized data from the survey.

软件生态系统已成为组织软件开发、维护和复用代码包的最重要方式之一。然而，当软件包发生变更时，协调工作会成为软件生态系统中的一大挑战——原因在于各软件包高度依赖却又独立维护。生态系统的文化涵盖与变更管理相关的价值观及实践方式。我们对十余个生态系统中的数千名开发者开展了调查，询问其所在社区独特文化的构成价值观与实践方式，以及不同利益相关者的感知影响力和社区的感知健康度。本数据集发布内容包含该调查的匿名化数据。