Data and scripts for the paper

This repository contains the main data and scripts used in 'A First Look at Good First Issues on GitHub '

dataset

The folder dataset contains the following files.

• project_attributes.csv

  • It contains the data of 816 projects used in this study.
  • id is the ghtorrent-bq.ght_2018_04_01.projects id

• gfi.csv

  • It contains all the good first issues identified in this study.
  • id is the ghtorrent-bq.ght_2018_04_01.issues id
  • issue_id is the ghtorrent-bq.ght_2018_04_01.issues issue_id

• issue_character.csv

  • It contains the issues used to compare the resolution process of good first issues and others (Section 5.1.1).

• random_issue_manual_analysis.csv

  • It contains the good first issues for manual analysis (Section 5.2.1).

• Results of Thematic Analysis.pdf

  • It shows the thematic analysis results for RQ4 (Section 7.1.1).

• coding guide.pdf

  • It shows the coding_guide for thematic analysis results for RQ4 (Section 7.1.1).

• Because the codes we obtained for extracting the problems of GFI mechanism are very similar, we do not provide the detail of this step (Section 6.1.2).

scripts

The folder scripts contains the following files.

• model
  • This folder contains the scripts to bulid logstic regression model.
• key_information
  • This folder contains the scripts to extract the key information of good first issue descriptions.
• get_issue_report
  • Because ghtorrent dataset doesn't contain descriptions of issue reports, it used to download the issue reports from GitHub.
• process_report.py
  • It used to process the markdown style of issue reports to obtain the related fields.
• gfi_description_attributes.py
  • It used to get the attributes of good first issue descriptions.
• get_issue_label_time.py
  • It used to get the events of good first issues, i.e., who and when label the issue.