@conference {Zhang:2014:ISM:2666539.2666572,
	title = {Investigating Social Media in GitHub{\textquoteright}s Pull-requests: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Crowd-based Software Development Methods and Technologies},
	series = {CrowdSoft 2014},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {37{\textendash}41},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {In GitHub, pull-request mechanism is an outstanding social development method by integrating with many social media. Many studies have explored that social media has an important effect on software development. @-mention as a typical social media, is a useful tool in social platform. In this paper, we made a quantitative analysis of @-mention in pull-requests of the project Ruby on Rails. First, we make a convictive statistics of the popularity of pull-request mechanism in GitHub. Then we investigate the current situation of @-mention in the Ruby on Rails. Our empirical analysis results find some insights of @-mention.
},
	keywords = {@-mention, github, pull-request, social media},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-3224-8},
	doi = {10.1145/2666539.2666572},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2666539.2666572},
	author = {Zhang, Yang and Yin, Gang and Yu, Yue and Wang, Huaimin}
}
