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| author | Noori, Mobina Chakraborti, Mahasweta Zhang, Amy X Frey, Seth |
| author_facet | Noori, Mobina Chakraborti, Mahasweta Zhang, Amy X Frey, Seth |
| contents | We study how open source communities describe participation and control through version controlled governance documents. Using a corpus of 710 projects with paired snapshots, we parse text into actors, rules, actions, and objects, then group them and measure change with entropy for evenness, richness for diversity, and Jensen Shannon divergence for drift. Projects define more roles and more actions over time, and these are distributed more evenly, while the composition of rules remains stable. These findings indicate that governance grows by expanding and balancing categories of participation without major shifts in prescriptive force. The analysis provides a reproducible baseline for evaluating whether future AI mediated workflows concentrate or redistribute authority. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects Noori, Mobina Chakraborti, Mahasweta Zhang, Amy X Frey, Seth Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence We study how open source communities describe participation and control through version controlled governance documents. Using a corpus of 710 projects with paired snapshots, we parse text into actors, rules, actions, and objects, then group them and measure change with entropy for evenness, richness for diversity, and Jensen Shannon divergence for drift. Projects define more roles and more actions over time, and these are distributed more evenly, while the composition of rules remains stable. These findings indicate that governance grows by expanding and balancing categories of participation without major shifts in prescriptive force. The analysis provides a reproducible baseline for evaluating whether future AI mediated workflows concentrate or redistribute authority. |
| title | A Human Behavioral Baseline for Collective Governance in Software Projects |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08956 |