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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…

We present a method for accurately predicting the long time popularity of online content from early measurements of user access. Using two content sharing portals, Youtube and Digg, we show that by modeling the accrual of views and votes on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-11-06 Gabor Szabo , Bernardo A. Huberman

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it had been tested on selected open source software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Hideaki Hata , Nicole Novielli , Sebastian Baltes , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Christoph Treude

GitHub is the largest host of open source software on the Internet. This large, freely accessible database has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But as GitHub's growth continues, it is becoming increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Francisco Zanartu , Christoph Treude , Bruno Cartaxo , Hudson Silva Borges , Pedro Moura , Markus Wagner , Gustavo Pinto

GitHub introduced the suggestion feature to enable reviewers to explicitly suggest code modifications in pull requests. These suggestions make the reviewers' feedback more actionable for the submitters and represent a valuable knowledge for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Abir Bouraffa , Yen Dieu Pham , Walid Maalej

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

Marketplaces for distributing software products and services have been getting increasing popularity. GitHub, which is most known for its version control functionality through Git, launched its own marketplace in 2017. GitHub Marketplace…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Sk Golam Saroar , Waseefa Ahmed , Maleknaz Nayebi

Current paper reports the advantages of the application of GitHub and LaTeX for the MSc thesis writing. The existing code-based program implemented in GitHub portal provides a great tool for scientists and students for data sharing and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Polina Lemenkova

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, serving as a major source of information and learning resource for millions of users worldwide. While motivations for its usage vary, prior research suggests shallow information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Neal Reeves , Wenjie Yin , Elena Simperl

Topic popularity prediction in social networks has drawn much attention recently. Various elegant models have been proposed for this issue. However, different datasets and evaluation metrics they use lead to low comparability. So far there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Yiming Zhang , Jiacheng Luo , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer's interests within and across GitHub and Stack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Roy Ka-Wei Lee , David Lo

Version control systems are integral to software development, with GitHub emerging as a popular online platform due to its comprehensive project management tools, including issue tracking and pull requests. However, GitHub lacks a direct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Rifat Ara Proma , Paul Rosen

Due to the difficulties in replicating and scaling up qualitative studies, such studies are rarely verified. Accordingly, in this paper, we leverage the advantages of crowdsourcing (low costs, fast speed, scalable workforce) to replicate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Di Chen , Kathryn T. Stolee , Tim Menzies

Pinterest is a popular photo sharing website. Fashion is one the most popular and content generating category on this platform. Most of the popular fashion brands and designers use boards on Pinterest for showcasing their products. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Suman Kalyan Maity , Anshit Chaudhari , Animesh Mukherjee

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

Context: The ``wontfix'' label is a widely used yet narrowly understood tool in GitHub repositories, indicating that an issue will not be pursued further. Despite its prevalence, the impact of this label on project management and community…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 J. Alexander Curtis , Sharadha Kasiviswanathan , Nasir Eisty

Online collaboration platforms such as GitHub have provided software developers with the ability to easily reuse and share code between repositories. With clone-and-own and forking becoming prevalent, maintaining these shared files is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Hideaki Hata , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Christoph Treude

Open source software has an increasing importance in our modern society, providing basic services to other software systems and also supporting the rapid development of a variety of end-user applications. Recently, world-wide code sharing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Thais Mombach , Marco Tulio Valente , Cuiting Chen , Magiel Bruntink , Gustavo Pinto

When a group of people strives to understand new information, struggle ensues as various ideas compete for attention. Steep learning curves are surmounted as teams learn together. To understand how these team dynamics play out in software…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Pamela Bilo Thomas , Rachel Krohn , Tim Weninger

Peer recommendation is a crowdsourcing task that leverages the opinions of many to identify interesting content online, such as news, images, or videos. Peer recommendation applications often use social signals, e.g., the number of prior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-28 Tad Hogg , Kristina Lerman