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Kelly Blincoe
Researcher at University of Auckland
Publications - 82
Citations - 2127
Kelly Blincoe is an academic researcher from University of Auckland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Software development. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1573 citations. Previous affiliations of Kelly Blincoe include University of Victoria & Auckland University of Technology.
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The promises and perils of mining GitHub
Eirini Kalliamvakou,Georgios Gousios,Kelly Blincoe,Leif Singer,Daniel M. German,Daniela Damian +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown, for example, that the majority of the projects are personal and inactive; that GitHub is also being used for free storage and as a Web hosting service; and that almost 40% of all pull requests do not appear as merged, even though they were.
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An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub
Eirini Kalliamvakou,Georgios Gousios,Kelly Blincoe,Leif Singer,Daniel M. German,Daniela Damian +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that while GitHub is a rich source of data on software development, mining GitHub for research purposes should take various potential perils into consideration, and provides a set of recommendations for software engineering researchers on how to approach the data in GitHub.
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Understanding the popular users
TL;DR: It is found that popular users do influence their followers by guiding them to new projects, indicating that a new type of leadership is emerging through GitHub's following feature and popularity can be more important than contribution in influencing others.
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The sky is not the limit: multitasking across GitHub projects
Bogdan Vasilescu,Kelly Blincoe,Qi Xuan,Casey Casalnuovo,Daniela Damian,Premkumar Devanbu,Vladimir Filkov +6 more
TL;DR: It is found that the rate of switching and breadth of a developer's work matter and developers who work on many projects have higher productivity if they focus on few projects per day and developers that switch projects too much during the course of a day have lower productivity as they work on more projects overall.
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Open source-style collaborative development practices in commercial projects using GitHub
TL;DR: It is found that many commercial projects adopted practices that are more typical of OSS projects including reduced communication, more independent work, and self-organization, which impact how GitHub is used for collaboration in commercial projects.