In an effort to encourage research on understanding and improving FOSS (Free, Open Source Software), MSR has established the “FOSS Impact paper” award. The award will be granted to papers that show outstanding contributions to the FOSS community. For many years, the MSR community has leveraged public data from FOSS projects, and in the process, the community has contributed new insights, tools, and techniques to assist FOSS projects in different ways. This award recognizes and encourages this line of research. Authors can self-nominate their research papers for the FOSS award, after which the dedicated committee will evaluate these papers.
How to self-nominate for the FOSS Award
Any paper that is notified as accepted in the MSR Technical Track (including all categories: Research Papers, Practice Experience, and Tool Track) can self-nominate for the FOSS Award. Those papers will be examined by the FOSS Award Committee, that will select awarded papers based on the impact of the paper (or the study, experience or tool described in it) on the FOSS (free, open source software) development community. To self-nominate, authors will submit their paper (the same version that was reviewed but with no double-blind provisions) to the FOSS Award track in EasyChair. When convenient, links to source code, reproducible packages, etc. related to the paper should appear in the paper, so that the FOSS Award Committee can inspect them. When submitting their paper, authors will be requested to fill in a form, where they will explain the rationale for self-nominating the paper. This rationale should be written in terms of the impact of the paper on the FOSS development community: how it could benefit, or are already benefiting, from its results, the use of the tools described, the reported experience, etc.
Announcement of the awarded papers
The awarded papers will be announced during MSR. They could be one or more papers, but the Award could also be declared void.
Conference DayMon 29 JunDisplayed time zone: (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time change
11:00 - 12:00 | Build, CI, & DependenciesTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom Chair(s): Raula Gaikovina KulaNAIST Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack) | ||
11:00 12mLive Q&A | A Tale of Docker Build Failures: A Preliminary StudyMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Yiwen WuNational University of Defense Technology, Yang ZhangNational University of Defense Technology, China, Tao WangNational University of Defense Technology, Huaimin Wang Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:12 12mLive Q&A | Using Others' Tests to Avoid Breaking UpdatesMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Suhaib MujahidConcordia University, Rabe AbdalkareemConcordia University, Montreal, Canada, Emad ShihabConcordia University, Shane McIntoshMcGill University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:24 12mLive Q&A | A Dataset of DockerfilesMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Jordan HenkelUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, A: Christian Bird, A: Shuvendu LahiriMicrosoft Research, A: Thomas RepsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Media Attached | ||
11:36 12mLive Q&A | Empirical Study of Restarted and Flaky Builds on Travis CIMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Thomas DurieuxKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Claire Le GouesCarnegie Mellon University, Michael HiltonCarnegie Mellon University, USA, Rui AbreuInstituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:48 12mLive Q&A | LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log AnalysisMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Carolin BrandtDelft University of Technology, A: Annibale PanichellaDelft University of Technology, A: Andy ZaidmanTU Delft, A: Moritz BellerFacebook, USA Pre-print Media Attached | ||
Conference DayTue 30 JunDisplayed time zone: (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time change
2020 Award Recipients
James Walden: The Impact of a Major Security Event on an Open Source Project: The Case of OpenSSL
Award for its analysis on the impact of the Heartbleed vulnerability on the OpenSSL project, providing recommendations for how open source projects can adapt and improve. The author provides guidance regarding metrics that helps to assess the health of a project. This paper is a piece of literature that interesting and relevant to many FOSS maintainers.
| Fri 20 Mar 2020 23:59 Self-nomination deadline |
Eleni ConstantinouFOSS Award Co-Chair
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Daniel Izquierdo CortazarFOSS Award Co-Chair
Bitergia
Spain
Jeff McAfferFOSS Award Co-Chair
GitHub
United States
Igor SteinmacherFOSS Award Co-Chair
Northern Arizona University
United States
VM (Vicky) BrasseurCommittee Member
Valerio CosentinoCommittee Member
Bitergia
Spain
Kevin FlemingCommittee Member
Bloomberg LP
United States
Mike HoyeCommittee Member
Mozilla
Duane O'BrienCommittee Member
Indeed.com
Lydia PintscherCommittee Member
Allison RandalCommittee Member
University of Cambridge
Arfon SmithCommittee Member
Diomidis SpinellisCommittee Member
Athens University of Economics and Business
Greece
Kate StewartCommittee Member
Linux Foundation
United States
Nick VidalCommittee Member
Open Source Initiative
Brazil
Stefano ZacchiroliCommittee Member
Université de Paris and Inria
France
Vadim ZaytsevCommittee Member
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Netherlands