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Evaluating a bot detection model on git commit messages
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Detecting the presence of bots in distributed software development activity is very important in order to prevent bias in large-scale socio-technical empirical analyses. In previou…
A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions
Damien Legay, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Linux users expect fresh packages in the official repositories of their distributions. Yet, due to philosophical divergences, the packages available in various distributions do not…
Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity?
Thorn Jansen, Zeinab Abou Khalil, Eleni Constantinou +1
Software projects are regularly updated with new functionality and bug fixes through so-called releases. In recent years, many software projects have been shifting to shorter relea…
Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou +1
Development bots are used on Github to automate repetitive activities. Such bots communicate with human actors via issue comments and pull request comments. Identifying such bot co…
Lost in Zero Space -- An Empirical Comparison of 0.y.z Releases in Software Package Distributions
Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Distributions of open source software packages dedicated to specific programming languages facilitate software development by allowing software projects to depend on the functional…
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments
Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Damien Legay +1
Bots are frequently used in Github repositories to automate repetitive activities that are part of the distributed software development process. They communicate with human actors…