Across 40 proprietary software repositories, most source-code changes were made by either marginal or dominant code owners.

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"Across 40 proprietary software repositories, most source-code changes were made by either marginal or dominant code owners."

The observational study found a strong practical concentration of code ownership, supporting uneven ownership and expertise without implying that every component has exactly one exclusive owner.

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Source title U Owns the Code That Changes and How Marginal Owners Resolve Issues Slower in Low-Quality Source Code

Source authors Markus Borg; Adam Tornhill; Enys Mones

Source year 2023

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