Sentiments Analysis in GitHub Repositories: An Empirical Study

Abstract

There have been more than 12 million open source software in GitHub so far, but the existing studies about sentiments analysis in open source software are not sufcient for the sentiments analysis in GitHub. This paper proposes an approach to analyze the correlation of comment sentiments and bug fixing speed. It's proved the existence of certain factors among some relevance after experiments. The experimental results also give some suggestions on GitHub open source software development process.