Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18982v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:20:54 GMT
• Title: Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories
• Authors: Amir Hossain Raaj, Fairuz Nawer Meem, Sadia Afrin Mim,
• Abstract summary: GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community.<n>Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties.<n>Most of the GitHub repositories do not maintain regular labeling for the issues.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community. Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties. Having labels on those issues can help developers easily address those issues with prior knowledge of labels. However, most of the GitHub repositories do not maintain regular labeling for the issues. The goal of this work is to classify issues in the open-source community using ML \& DNN models. There are thousands of open-source repositories on GitHub. Some of the repositories label their issues properly whereas some of them do not. When issues are pre-labeled, the problem-solving process and the immediate assignment of corresponding personnel are facilitated for the team, thereby expediting the development process. In this work, we conducted an analysis of prominent GitHub open-source repositories. We classified the issues in some common labels which are: API, Documentation, Enhancement, Question, Easy, Help-wanted, Dependency, CI, Waiting for OP's response, Test, Bug, etc. Our study shows that DNN models outperf

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