GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption

• Main Authors: HATA, Hideaki, NOVIELLI, Nicole, BALTES, Sebastian, KULA, Raula, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: GitHub Discussions; communications; sentiment; empirical study; exploratory study; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8788; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9791/viewcontent/discussions.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it had been tested on selected open source software projects. To understand how developers use this novel feature, ho...