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GitHub is the world's largest collection of open source software. Therefore, it is important both to software developers and users to compare and track the popularity of GitHub repositories. In this paper, we propose a framework to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Hudson Borges , Marco Tulio Valente , Andre Hora , Jailton Coelho

GitHub is the most widely used social, distributed version control system. It has around 10 million registered users and hosts over 16 million public repositories. Its user base is also very active as GitHub ranks in the top 100 Alexa most…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Amirali Sanatinia , Guevara Noubir

According to GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories, the exposure of secrets (API keys and other credentials) increased two-fold in 2021 compared to 2020, totaling more than six million secrets. However, no benchmark dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Setu Kumar Basak , Lorenzo Neil , Bradley Reaves , Laurie Williams

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

Dockerfiles are one of the most prevalent kinds of DevOps artifacts used in industry. Despite their prevalence, there is a lack of sophisticated semantics-aware static analysis of Dockerfiles. In this paper, we introduce a dataset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jordan Henkel , Christian Bird , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Reps

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

Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

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

With the rapid development of AI technologies, thousands of AI papers are being published each year. Many of these papers have released sample code to facilitate follow-up researchers. This paper presents an explorative study of over 1700…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Boyang Zhang

GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of code repositories written in hundreds of different programming languages. In addition to its hosting services, GitHub provides data and insights into code, such as vulnerability analysis and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick Thomson , Rob Rix , Nicolas Wu , Tom Schrijvers

Software popularity is a valuable information to modern open source developers, who constantly want to know if their systems are attracting new users, if new releases are gaining acceptance, or if they are meeting user's expectations. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Hudson Borges , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

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

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon

GitHub is the most popular repository for open source code. It has more than 3.5 million users, as the company declared in April 2013, and more than 10 million repositories, as of December 2013. It has a publicly accessible API and, since…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-10 Antonio Lima , Luca Rossi , Mirco Musolesi

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

Background: Data mining and analyzing of public Git software repositories is a growing research field. The tools used for studies that investigate a single project or a group of projects have been refined, but it is not clear whether the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Adam Tutko , Austin Henley , Audris Mockus

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

Hosting platforms for software projects can form collaborative social networks and a prime example of this is GitHub which is arguably the most popular platform of this kind. An open source project recommendation system could be a major…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Tadej Matek , Svit Timej Zebec

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

Mining and storage of data from software repositories is typically done on a per-project basis, where each project uses a unique combination of data schema, extraction tools, and (intermediate) storage infrastructure. We introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Alex Serban , Magiel Bruntink , Joost Visser