一句话：提出基于GitHub细粒度事件数据的分析框架，刻画开源精英开发者活动，并拟构建工具支持决策与自动化。
论文关注拥有管理权限、驱动开源软件发展的精英开发者。作者提出一种利用GitHub细粒度事件数据研究开发者公共活动的新方法，并将其发展为收集、建模和分析精英开发者在线贡献活动的分析框架。基于该框架，作者在多个开源项目与生态中开展实证研究，刻画精英开发者的全谱系活动及其动态，并揭示其精力分配与项目技术成果之间的关系。最后，论文提出基于该框架和现有结果设计实现工具集，以支持个体开发者决策并借助自动化辅助日常工作流。
Elite developers, who own the administrative privileges for a project, maintain a diverse profile of contributing activities, and drive the development of open source software (OSS). To advance our understanding and further support the OSS community, I present a fresh approach to investigate developers’ public activities from the fine-grained event data provided by GitHub. Further, I develop this approach into an analysis framework for collecting, modeling, and analyzing elite developers’ online contributing activities. Employing this framework, I have conducted empirical studies on various OSS projects and ecosystems to characterize elite developers’ full-spectrum activities and their dynamics, and also unveil relationships between their effort allocation and projects’ technical outcomes. Finally, I propose to design and implement a toolset based on this framework and my results to date, which supports individual developers’ decision-making and assists their routine workflows with automation.