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Transcript
The GHTorrent Dataset and Tool Suite Georgios Gousios Software Engineering
Research Group TU Delft
All data from Github
Ready to be queried
ghtorrent.org
Repositories
Commits
Pull requests
Issues
Users and Organizations
Mirror event stream
<<event>> PushEvent <<api>> /users/:user ensure_user <<api>> /repos/:user/:repo/ ensure_repo <<api>> /repos/:user/:repo/commits
ensure_commits ensure_user <<api>> /:user/:repo/sha ensure_commit ensure_user <<api>> /users/:user/ followers ensure_followers <<api>> /repos/:user/:repo/ commits/:sha/comments ensure_commit_comments <<api>> /users/:user/orgs ensure_orgs <<api>> /orgs/:org/teams ensure_teams Recursive dependency retrieval
Build relational database to query
repositories users organizations issues /users/:user /user/repos /repos/:user/:repo/issues /orgs/:org { 88"type":8"User",
88"public_gists":80, 88"login":8"gousiosg", 88"followers":88, 88"name":8"Georgios8Gousios", 88"public_repos":84, 88"created_at":8..., 88"id":8386172, 88"following":84, } { . . . CoSQL database as cache
Periodic dumps of DBs online
Query relational DB online
$ gem install sqlite3 ghtorrent $ ght-retrieve-repo mojombo jekyll $
(edit config.yaml) Roll your own tools
Research !
Single developer identities
Single developer identities
Single developer identities
Single developer identities
Single developer identities
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Source tracking
Network analysis
Distributed development Text Text TUD-SERG-2013-10 An Exploratory Study of the
Pull- based Software Development model
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ghtorrent.org Octicons font: courtesy Github