Title GHTorrent: GitHub's data from a firehose
           URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2664449
          Year 2012
     Citations 65
      Versions 15
    Cluster ID 9159843476657694384
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       Excerpt Abstract A common requirement of many empirical software engineering studies is the acquisition and curation of data from software repositories. During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive rest api, which enables researchers to retrieve both the commits to the projects' repositories and events generated through user actions on project resources.  ...