Investigating Social Media in GitHub's Pull-requests: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails

Submitted by msquire on Thu, 2014-12-18 09:40

Title	Investigating Social Media in GitHub's Pull-requests: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2014
Authors	Zhang, Y, Yin, G, Yu, Y, Wang, H
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Crowd-based Software Development Methods and Technologies
Pagination	37–41
Publisher	ACM
Place Published	New York, NY, USA
ISBN Number	978-1-4503-3224-8
Keywords	@-mention, github, pull-request, social media
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.
URL	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2666539.2666572
DOI	10.1145/2666539.2666572
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