一句话：实证发现开源项目的行为准则与女性贡献者比例无显著关联，呼吁补充策略促进多元参与。
开源软件社区日益关注社会偏见与歧视对社区文化的负面影响，许多项目因此制定行为准则来规范贡献者互动，但往往缺乏对其有效性的实证检验。本文对流行开源项目进行性别多样性分析，比较设有与未设行为准则的项目中女性贡献者比例。结果显示，两者之间没有显著差异。作者据此指出，仅靠行为准则可能不足以促进多元参与，社区应探索补充策略，以避免增加维护成本却收效有限。
Open source software communities are increasingly aware of how social biases and discrimination negatively affect their culture. Many choose to establish policies regulating their contributors' social interactions without considering the efficacy of such measures. If these communities lack an empirical awareness of their policies' impact, they may find themselves adopting dogmatic practices that serve only to increase overhead maintenance costs. Conducting a gender diversity analysis of popular open source projects, I discovered no significant change in the proportion of women contributing to projects with or without a code of conduct. In light of this discovery, the open source community should consider supplemental strategies in order to foster diverse participation in their projects.
DOI 原文 ·
@inproceedings{paperbot4676,
title = {Diversity and decorum in open source communities},
author = {Neill Robson},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1145/3236024.3275441}
}