An Insight into the Pull Requests of GitHub

TitleAn Insight into the Pull Requests of GitHub
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsRahman, MM, Roy, CK
Secondary TitleProceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Pagination364–367
PublisherACM
Place PublishedNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-2863-0
KeywordsCommit comments, mining challenge, msr challenge, pull request, topic model
Abstract

Given the increasing number of unsuccessful pull requests in GitHub projects, insights into the success and failure of these requests are essential for the developers. In this paper, we provide a comparative study between successful and unsuccessful pull requests made to 78 GitHub base projects by 20,142 developers from 103,192 forked projects. In the study, we analyze pull request discussion texts, project specific information (e.g., domain, maturity), and developer specific information (e.g., experience) in order to report useful insights, and use them to contrast between successful and unsuccessful pull requests. We believe our study will help developers overcome the issues with pull requests in GitHub, and project administrators with informed decision making.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2597073.2597121(link is external)
DOI10.1145/2597073.2597121(link is external)
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