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A dataset for pull-based development research

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Georgios Gousios,

Andy ZaidmanAuthors Info & Claims

MSR 2014: Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Pages 368 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597122

Published: 31 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Pull requests form a new method for collaborating in distributed software development. To study the pull request distributed development model, we constructed a dataset of almost 900 projects and 350,000 pull requests, including some of the largest users of pull requests on Github. In this paper, we describe how the project selection was done, we analyze the selected features and present a machine learning tool set for the R statistics environment.

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A dataset for pull-based development research
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
    2. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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MSR 2014: Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

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DOI:10.1145/2597073

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University of California at Davis, USA
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
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University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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