一句话：通过混合方法实证揭示软件从业者参与内源项目的动机及其与开源动机的差异。
随着软件组织广泛采用开源开发实践形成内源（inner source），从业者为何愿意向内源项目贡献仍不清楚。论文采用混合方法：先访谈20名从业者进行定性分析，再对来自4大洲13个国家的124名受访者开展探索性问卷调查。研究识别出软件从业者参与内源项目的动机，并比较其与参与开源项目动机的差异；进一步分析这些动机如何影响在内源项目中的贡献程度和持续贡献意愿。基于发现，作者为未来研究指出方向，并为组织和从业者提供建议。
Software development organizations have adopted open source development practices to support or augment their software development processes, a phenomenon referred to as inner source. Given the rapid adoption of inner source, we wonder what motivates software practitioners to contribute to inner source projects. We followed a mixed-methods approach--a qualitative phase of interviews with 20 interviewees, followed by a quantitative phase of an exploratory survey with 124 respondents from 13 countries across four continents. Our study uncovers practitioners' motivation to contribute to inner source projects, as well as how the motivation differs from what motivates practitioners to participate in open source projects. We also investigate how software practitioners' motivation impacts their contribution level and continuance intention in inner source projects. Based on our findings, we outline directions for future research and provide recommendations for organizations and software practitioners.
@inproceedings{paperbot7007,
title = {What motivates software practitioners to contribute to inner source?},
author = {Zhiyuan Wan and Xin Xia and Yun Zhang and David Lo and Daibing Zhou and Qiuyuan Chen and Ahmed E. Hassan},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1145/3540250.3549148}
}