Do Good, Stay Longer? Temporal Patterns and Predictors of Newcomer-to-Core Transitions in Conventional OSS and OSS4SG
8.Threats to Validity Like any empirical study, our work has limitations, which we address along with our mitigation strategies. Internal Validity.Comparing OSS and OSS4SG projects risks bias if datasets differ in maturity, activity, or longevity. To mitigate this, we applied systematic filtering requiring at least 10 contributors, 500 commits, 50 clos...