Dataset details and challenges in collecting GitHub data highlight new research opportunities.
During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive REST API, which enables researchers to retrieve high-quality, interconnected data. The GHTorent project has been collecting data for all public projects available on Github for more than a year. In this paper, we present the dataset details and construction process and outline the challenges and research opportunities emerging from it.
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Georgios Gousios (2013) studied this question.