Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code
inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is ua nknown whether the research …

Peer code review is a practice widely adopted in software projects to improve the quality of
code. In current code review practices, code changes are manually inspected by developers …

GitHub facilitates software development practices that encourage collaboration and
communication. Part of GitHub's model includes forking, which enables users to make …

Pull request latency evaluation is an essential application of effort evaluation in the pull-
based development scenario. It can help the reviewers sort the pull request queue, remind …

Pull Request (PR) is a major contributor to external developers of open-source projects in
GitHub. PR reviewing is an important part of open-source software developments to ensure …

Pull requests (PRs) selection is a challenging task faced by integrators in pull-based
development (PbD), with hundreds of PRs submitted on a daily basis to large open-source …

Recently, many researches propose that social media tools can promote the collaboration
among developers, which are beneficial to the software development. Nevertheless, there is …

Issue reports and Pull Requests (PRs) are two important kinds of artifacts of software
projects in GitHub. It is common for developers to leave explicit links in issues/PRs that refer …

A lot of Pull Requests (PRs) appear in Github everyday, and thus it is a very important work
to review these PRs quickly in Github. Labeling PRs according to the PRs classification can …