Historically, mailing lists have been the preferred means for coordinating development and
user support activities. With the emergence and popularity growth of social Q&A sites such …

Code review is an important quality assurance activity for software development. Code
review discussions among developers and maintainers can be heated and sometimes …

Open source software (OSS) development teams use electronic means, such as emails,
instant messaging, or forums, to conduct open and public discussions. Researchers …

The Linux kernel follows an extremely distributed reviewing and integration process
supported by 130 developer mailing lists and a hierarchy of dozens of Git repositories for …

Software ecosystems form the heart of modern companies' collaboration strategies with end
users, open source developers and other companies. An ecosystem consists of a core …

Emails related to the development of a software system contain information about design
choices and issues encountered during the development process. Exploiting the knowledge …

Software repositories, such as source code, email archives, and bug databases, contain
unstructured and unlabeled text that is difficult to analyze with traditional techniques. We …

In crowdsourced software testing, inspecting the large number of test reports is an
overwhelming but inevitable software maintenance task. In recent years, to alleviate this …

Many software projects adopt mailing lists for the communication of developers and users.
Researchers have been mining the history of such lists to study communities' behavior …

Context: During software maintenance, people typically go back to the original reviews of a
patch to understand the actual design rationale and potential risks of the code. Whereas …