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Characterizing and Modeling the GitHub Security Advisories Review Pipeline
Claudio Segal, Paulo Segal, Carlos Eduardo Banjar +8
GitHub Security Advisories (GHSA) have become a central component of open-source vulnerability disclosure and are widely used by developers and security tools. A distinctive featur…
GitHub Proxy Server: A tool for supporting massive data collection on GitHub
Hudson Silva Borges, Marco Tulio Valente
GitHub is the most popular social coding platform and widely used by developers and organizations to host their open-source projects around the world. Besides that, the platform ha…
Automatically Categorising GitHub Repositories by Application Domain
Francisco Zanartu, Christoph Treude, Bruno Cartaxo +4
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 a…
Beyond Textual Issues: Understanding the Usage and Impact of GitHub Reactions
Hudson Borges, Rodrigo Brito, Marco Tulio Valente
Recently, GitHub introduced a new social feature, named reactions, which are "pictorial characters" similar to emoji symbols widely used nowadays in text-based communications. Part…
What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform
Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente
Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or s…
Predicting the Popularity of GitHub Repositories
Hudson Borges, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente
GitHub is the largest source code repository in the world. It provides a git-based source code management platform and also many features inspired by social networks. For example,…
Understanding the Factors that Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories
Hudson Borges, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente
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 a…
On the Popularity of GitHub Applications: A Preliminary Note
Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente, Andre Hora +1
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 rep…