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On Developer Relations Team's Reasons for Using Repositories

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Awdren Fontão,

Bruno B. P. Cafeo,

Bruno Bonifácio,

Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos,

Arilo Claudio Dias-NetoAuthors Info & Claims

ICSEW'20: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops

Pages 187 - 188

https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392170

Published: 25 September 2020 Publication History

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Organizations such as Amazon, Apple and Google have been investing in Developer Relations (DevRel) team to engage a critical mass of third-party developers in producing and evolving contributions to a common technological platform. It fosters the establishment of a Software Ecosystem (SECO). However, it is still unknown how the DevRel team should act on monitoring a SECO aiming to establish a robust ecosystem. One tangible possibility is to mine repositories to enhance DevRel strategies. In this paper, we report on an investigation of the reasons that lead 31 DevRel practitioners to use software repositories during their activities. The results point out a common perspective for DevRel practitioners and researchers in developing strategies and research roadmaps.

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Oliveira RAjala CViana DCafeo BFontão A(2021)Developer Relations (DevRel) Roles: an Exploratory Study on Practitioners’ opinionsProceedings of the XXXV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3474624.3474628(363-367)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3474624.3474628
Fontão ACleger‐Tamayo SWiese IPereira dos Santos RClaudio Dias‐Neto A(2021)A Developer Relations (DevRel) model to govern developers in Software EcosystemsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.2389Online publication date: 12-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2389

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On Developer Relations Team's Reasons for Using Repositories
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Collaboration in software development

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Oliveira RAjala CViana DCafeo BFontão A(2021)Developer Relations (DevRel) Roles: an Exploratory Study on Practitioners’ opinionsProceedings of the XXXV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3474624.3474628(363-367)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3474624.3474628
Fontão ACleger‐Tamayo SWiese IPereira dos Santos RClaudio Dias‐Neto A(2021)A Developer Relations (DevRel) model to govern developers in Software EcosystemsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.2389Online publication date: 12-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2389

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