Open-source contribution infrastructure research

The initiative studies public repositories and primary sources, records the limits of each finding, and builds tools only where the evidence identifies a repeated infrastructure gap.

Published writing

• Open Source's Hidden Language Gap
  Communications of the ACM · May 2026
  Why localization is an infrastructure and governance problem, not only a translation problem.
  Read at CACM (opens in a new tab)
• What Five Localization Pull Requests Revealed About Open Source Governance
  DevOps.com · June 2026
  A field report following real localization contributions through review and disposition.
  Read at DevOps.com (opens in a new tab)
• Can your project actually review an accessibility contribution?
  Bootcamp · August 2026
  Seven accessibility pull requests scored against a 12-point review rubric (six criteria, 0–2 each).
  Read the analysis (opens in a new tab)
• The overlay question security is rarely asked
  Independent essay · August 2026
  Accessibility overlays considered as third-party supply-chain and trust dependencies.
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• Being understood includes the software
  Note for International Translation Day · September 2026
  Why translations in open source need the kind of review code already gets, with one real Hindi example.
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Method and corrections

Every case study and catalogue entry is dated and verified against the public record, and corrections are logged rather than made silently. The evidence rules (primary sources first, bots are not reviewers, small samples are never presented as rates) are set out on the researcher’s site.

• How the research works: method and evidence rules (opens in a new tab)
• Language inclusion corrections log (opens in a new tab)
• Six localization case studies and seven scored accessibility pull requests

Public evidence repositories