NDLI: Exploring the Use of @-mention to Assist Software Development in GitHub

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Wang, Huaimin Wang, Tao Yin, Gang Yu, Yue Zhang, Yang
Abstract	Recently, many researches propose that social media tools can promote the collaboration among developers, which are beneficial to the software development. Nevertheless, there is little empirical evidence to confirm that using @-mention has indeed a beneficial impact on the issues in GitHub. In this paper, we analyze the data from GitHub and give some insights on how @-mention is used in the issues (general-issues and pull-requests). Our statistical results indicate that, @-mention attracts more participants and tends to be used in the difficult issues. @-mention favors the solving process of issues by enlarging the visibility of issues and facilitating the developers' collaboration. In addition to this global study, our study also build a @-network based on the @-mention database we extract. Through the @-network, we can mine the relationships and characteristics of developers in GitHub's issues.
Starting Page	83
Ending Page	92
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450336413
DOI	10.1145/2875913.2875914
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-11-06
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Github Issues Social media @-mention
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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Exploring the Use of @-mention to Assist Software Development in GitHub