Research Artifact: How are Project-Specific Forums Utilized? A Study of Participation, Content, and Sentiment in the Eclipse Ecosystem

Research Artifact: How are Project-Specific Forums Utilized? A Study of Participation, Content, and Sentiment in the Eclipse Ecosystem

https://github.com/yusufsn/EclipseForumData

This is a research artefact for the paper: How are Project-Specific Forums Utilized? A Study of Participation, Content, and Sentiment in the Eclipse Ecosystem. This artifact is a repository consisting of collected dataset including (i) 289,061 threads, (ii) 216,864 extracted links from threads, (iii) 2,170 contributors, and the results of our qualitative analysis, (i) 1,142 manually annotated type of discussion and (ii) 1,142 manually annotated sentiment analysis. This artefact aims to enable researchers to replicate our mixed-methods quantitative results of the paper and reuse the dataset for further software engineering research.

Contents

dataset:

289061_threads.csv.zip - 289,061 collected main threads of all users without post from webmaster (.zip format)

216864_links.csv.zip - 216,864 extracted links from collected threads (.zip format)

2170_contributors.csv - 2,170 list of contributions (.csv format)

Results of manual analysis:

Manual annotation of discussion type

Manual annotation of sentiment analysis

Authors

Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho

Syful Islam

Keitaro Nakasai

Ifraz Rehman

Hideaki Hata

Raula Gaikovina Kula

Meiyappan Nagappan

Kenichi Matsumoto