Request for Community Approval – Academic Survey on Software Quality in OSS Projects

[estebanalonsoaustral]

Dear TLDR community,
My name is Esteban Jorge Alonso, and I am a PhD researcher at Universidad Austral (Argentina) conducting a scientific study on software quality in open-source projects. This research explores how developers, maintainers, and contributors perceive and prioritize quality across three essential dimensions: Product, Process, and People – commonly referred to as the 3P model.
To support this investigation, I have developed a short and anonymous survey (approx. 15 minutes) aimed at contributors to OSS projects hosted on GitHub. The purpose is to gather informed perspectives that will help identify and refine quality metrics relevant to real-world software development practices.
Key information about the study includes:
• This project has received ethics approval as part of my doctoral research
• The survey is anonymous and does not collect personal data
• Results will be published as open-access academic output
If permitted by the community, I would like to share the survey link in a future post, along with the formal consent form and additional study details. I am not including any links in this message, as I wish to respect community norms and seek prior approval before proceeding.
I kindly ask for your guidance or approval on how to best proceed with this initiative within the TLDR community. Your input and support would be greatly appreciated, and I am of course open to any feedback or suggestions to ensure this request aligns with your norms and values.
Thank you very much in advance for your time and consideration.
Best regards,
Esteban Jorge Alonso
PhD Candidate – Universidad Austral (Argentina)
[email protected]

[Managor]

Sounds interesting. I'm on board. I shared the discussion in our chatroom to get opinions of others.

[ali90h]

This is really interesting, I love to participate in anything that talks about open source projects, I'm interested

[kant]

Me too!

[kant]

@Managor @estebanalonsoaustral Any news about this academic survey?