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Understanding Inactive Yet Available Assignees In Github, Jing Jiang, David Lo, Xinyu Ma, Fuli Feng, Li Zhang
Understanding Inactive Yet Available Assignees In Github, Jing Jiang, David Lo, Xinyu Ma, Fuli Feng, Li Zhang
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Context In GitHub, an issue or a pull request can be assigned to a specific assignee who is responsible for working on this issue or pull request. Due to the principle of voluntary participation, available assignees may remain inactive in projects. If assignees ever participate in projects, they are active assignees; otherwise, they are inactive yet available assignees (inactive assignees for short). Objective Our objective in this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of inactive yet available assignees in GitHub. Method We collect 2,374,474 records of activities in 37 popular projects, and 797,756 records of activities in 687 projects …