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GitHub is the most popular social coding platform and widely used by developers and organizations to host their open-source projects around the world. Besides that, the platform has a web API that allow developers collect information from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hudson Silva Borges , Marco Tulio Valente

GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now a valuable means to study teamwork and collaboration. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Milo Z. Trujillo , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , James Bagrow

Software is often developed using versioned controlled software, such as Git, and hosted on centralized Web hosts, such as GitHub and GitLab. These Web hosted software repositories are made available to users in the form of traditional HTML…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-05-22 David Calano , Michele C. Weigle , Michael L. Nelson

Many platforms exploit collaborative tagging to provide their users with faster and more accurate results while searching or navigating. Tags can communicate different concepts such as the main features, technologies, functionality, and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Maliheh Izadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Georgios Gousios

GitHub hosts millions of software repositories, facilitating developers to contribute to many projects in multiple ways. Most of the information about the repositories is text-based in the form of stars, forks, commits, and so on. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Kowndinya Boyalakunta , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Hosting over 10 million of software projects, GitHub is one of the most important data sources to study behavior of developers and software projects. However, with the increase of the size of open source datasets, the potential threats to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Can Cheng , Bing Li , Zengyang Li , Peng Liang

Many AI researchers are publishing code, data and other resources that accompany their papers in GitHub repositories. In this paper, we refer to these repositories as academic AI repositories. Our preliminary study shows that highly cited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yuanrui Fan , Xin Xia , David Lo , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shanping Li

Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implementation is essential, especially in the case of open-source scientific software which implements bleeding-edge science in its code. However, aligning the link between…

GitHub is the world's largest platform for collaborative software development, with over 100 million users. GitHub is also used extensively for open data collaboration, hosting more than 800 million open data files, totaling 142 terabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anthony Cintron Roman , Kevin Xu , Arfon Smith , Jehu Torres Vega , Caleb Robinson , Juan M Lavista Ferres

Open-source software is widely used in commercial applications. Pair that with the fact that when choosing open-source software for a new problem, developers often use social proof as a cue. These two facts raise concerns that bad actors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lucas Shen , Gaurav Sood

Software developed on public platform is a source of data that can be used to make predictions about those projects. While the individual developing activity may be random and hard to predict, the developing behavior on project level can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tianpei Xia , Wei Fu , Rui Shu , Rishabh Agrawal , Tim Menzies

Background: Open Source Software is the building block of modern software. However, the prevalence of project deprecation in the open source world weakens the integrity of the downstream systems and the broad ecosystem. Therefore it calls…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Runzhi He , Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou

In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jessy Ayala , Joshua Garcia

Millions of developers share their code on open-source platforms like GitHub, which offer social coding opportunities such as distributed collaboration and popularity-based ranking. Software engineering researchers have joined in as well,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Kamel Alrashedy , Ahmed Binjahlan

GitHub is the world's most popular platform for storing, sharing, and managing code. Every GitHub repository has a README file associated with it. The README files should contain project-related information as per the recommendations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Malik Uzair Mehmood , Shahid Hussain , Wen Li Wang , Muhammad Usama Malik

Developers use and contribute to repositories on GitHub. Documentation present in the repositories serves as an important source by helping developers to understand, maintain and contribute to the project. Currently, documentation in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community. Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties. Having labels on those issues can help developers easily address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Amir Hossain Raaj , Fairuz Nawer Meem , Sadia Afrin Mim

Software repository hosting services contain large amounts of open-source software, with GitHub hosting more than 100 million repositories, from new to established ones. Given this vast amount of projects, there is a pressing need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi

Communities on GitHub often use issue labels as a way of triaging issues by assigning them priority ratings based on how urgently they should be addressed. The labels used are determined by the repository contributors and not standardised…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-20 James Caddy , Christoph Treude

Readme in GitHub repositories serves as a preliminary source of information, and thus helps developers in understanding about the projects, for reuse or extension. Different types of contextual and structural content, which we refer to as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda