Beyond Textual Issues

Borges, Hudson Silva; Brito, Rodrigo; Valente, M.

doi:10.1145/3350768.3350788

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“…Potential reasoning may be related to the findings observed in the context of issue reports. Prior work (Borges et al, 2019) reported that issues with reactions usually take more time to be handled and have longer discussions, especially for those complex bugs and enhancements.…”

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“…Herring and Dainas (2020) pointed out that females use emoji and emoticons more frequently than males do. Borges et al (2019) explored the usage of GitHub reactions in issues reports. They found that the usage of emoji reactions is increasingly growing and furthermore emoji reactions make more discussion for bug and enhancement issue reports.…”

Section: Modern Communication In Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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More than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

Teyon¹,

Xiao²,

Wang³

et al. 2021

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Open source software development has become more social and collaborative, evident GitHub. Since 2016, GitHub started to support more informal methods such as emoji reactions, with the goal to reduce commenting noise when reviewing any code changes to a repository. From a code review context, the extent to which emoji reactions facilitate a more efficient review process is unknown. We conduct an empirical study to mine 1,850 active repositories across seven popular languages to analyze 365,811 Pull Requests (PRs) for their emoji reactions against the review time, first-time contributors, comment intentions, and the consistency of the sentiments. Answering these four research perspectives, we first find that the number of emoji reactions has a significant correlation with the review time. Second, our results show that a PR submitted by a first-time contributor is less likely to receive emoji reactions. Third, the results reveal that the comments with an intention of information giving, are more likely to receive an emoji reaction. Fourth, we observe that only a small proportion of sentiments are not consistent between comments and emoji reactions, i.e., with 11.8% of instances being identified. In these cases, the prevalent reason is when reviewers cheer up authors that admit to a mistake, i.e., acknowledge a mistake. Apart from reducing commenting noise, our work suggests that emoji reactions play a positive role in facilitating collaborative communication during the review process.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Modern Communication In Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

More than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

Teyon¹,

Xiao²,

Wang³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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An empirical study of developers’ discussions about security challenges of different programming languages

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On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

Izquierdo¹,

Cabot

2021

Empir Software Eng

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The role of non-coding contributors in Open Source Software (OSS) is poorly understood. Most of current research around OSS development focuses on the coding aspects of the project (e.g., commits, pull requests or code reviews) while ignoring the potential of other types of contributions. Often, due to the assumption that these other contributions are not significant in number and that, in any case, they are handled by the same people that are also part of the “coding team”. This paper aims to investigate whether this is actually the case by analyzing the frequency and diversity of non-coding contributions in OSS development. As a sample of projects for our study we have taken the 100 most popular projects in the ecosystem of NPM, a package manager for JavaScript. Our results validate the importance of dedicated non-coding contributors in OSS and the diversity of OSS communities as, typically, a contributor specializes in a specific subset of roles. We foresee that projects adopting explicit policies to attract and onboard them could see a positive impact in their long-term sustainability providing they also put in place the right governance strategies to facilitate the migration and collaboration among the different roles. As part of this work, we also provide a replicability package to facilitate further quantitative role-based analysis by other researchers.

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Beyond Textual Issues

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

More than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

More than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests

An empirical study of developers’ discussions about security challenges of different programming languages

On the analysis of non-coding roles in open source development

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