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most citedGenerative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions

25 citations · 35 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2025

Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software

Tao Xiao, Youmei Fan, Fabio Calefato +4

Strategized LaTeX removal and whitespace normalization approachThe widespread adoption of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT is transforming software de…

cs.CY2025

Building Bridges across Papua New Guinea's Digital Divide in Growing the ICT Industry

Marc Cheong, Sankwi Abuzo, Hideaki Hata +6

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an emerging tech society with an opportunity to overcome geographic and social boundaries, in order to engage with the global market. However, the current…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Developer Reactions to Protestware in Open Source Software: The cases of color.js and es5.ext

Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4

There is growing concern about maintainers self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". Our objective is to u…

cs.SE2024

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities

Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata +2

The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes m…

cs.SE2024★ 25 cited

Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions

Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude +1

GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing comp…

cs.SE2024★ 9 cited

Quantifying and Characterizing Clones of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems

Tao Xiao, Zhili Zeng, Dong Wang +3

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) annotates development decisions that intentionally exchange long-term software artifact quality for short-term goals. Recent work explores the e…

cs.SE2024

Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware

Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4

Maintainers are now self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". In this poster, we present our approach to u…

cs.SE2024

"My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors

Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata +2

GitHub Sponsors was launched in 2019, enabling donations to open-source software developers to provide financial support, as per GitHub's slogan: "Invest in the projects you depend…

cs.SE2023

Studying the association between Gitcoin's issues and resolving outcomes

Morakot Choetkiertikul, Arada Puengmongkolchaikit, Pandaree Chandra +5

The development of open-source software (OSS) projects usually have been driven through collaborations among contributors and strongly relies on volunteering. Thus, allocating soft…

cs.SE2021

FLOSS != GitHub: A Case Study of Linux/BSD Perceptions from Microsoft's Acquisition of GitHub

Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hideki Hata, Kenichi Matsumoto

In 2018, the software industry giants Microsoft made a move into the Open Source world by completing the acquisition of mega Open Source platform, GitHub. This acquisition was not…