What is it about?
Social network analysis reveals details about the participants based on the role and the text in conversations in GitHub issues. The social network metrics com reveal skills contributors should have to complete open source software tasks.
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Why is it important?
Knowing details about the contributors we can reveal their skills and therefore, suggest or recommend tasks.
Perspectives
The approach performed well in projects where the tasks have on average, more than 3 comments. Maintainers and core contributors should incentivize the discussion to create data to train machine learning models to predict the skills based on social network analysis metrics.
Dr. Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos
Grand Canyon University
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This page is a summary of: Tell Me Who Are You Talking to and I Will Tell You What Issues Need Your Skills, May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/msr59073.2023.00087.
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