Abstract:The diverse community members who contribute to the discussions on issue tracking systems of open-source software projects often exhibit complex affective states such as sentiments and tones. These affective states can significantly influence the effectiveness of the issue discussions in elaborating the initial ideas into actionable tasks that the development teams need to address. In this paper, we present an extended empirical study to investigate the impacts of sentiments and tones in community-generated is… Show more
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