Issue tracking systems store valuable data for testing hypotheses concerning maintenance, building statistical prediction models and (recently) investigating developer affectiveness. For the latter, issue tracking systems can be mined to explore developers emotions, sentiments and politeness---affects for short. However, research on affect detection in software artefacts is still in its early stage due to the lack of manually validated data and tools.
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