Mentors matter: Association of mentors with project success in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator.

ABSTRACT: Mentoring has been a subject of study for 50 years. Most studies of mentoring programs evaluate the effect of the program on the participants but do not evaluate if different mentors have different effects on mentees. Open-source software (OSS) is software with a license that allows it to be freely used by other people. Such software has become foundational to the world economy. However, many OSS projects get abandoned by their creators. Various nonprofit organizations have arisen to help OSS projects become sustainable. One of the key services offered by many of these nonprofit organizations is a mentorship program where experienced OSS developers advise nascent projects on how to achieve sustainability. We use data from the Apache Software Foundation Incubator program where 303 mentors h

SUBMITTER: Atkisson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384984 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature