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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe Impacts of Sentiments and Tones in Community-Generated Issue Discussions
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The diverse community members who contribute to the discussions on issue tracking systems of open-source software projects often exhibit complex affective states such as sentiments and tones. These affective states can significantly influence the effectiveness of the issue discussions in elaborating the initial ideas into actionable tasks that the development teams need to address. In this paper, we present an extended empirical study to investigate the impacts of sentiments and tones in community-generated issue discussions. We created and validated a large dataset of sentiments and tones in the issues posts and comments created by diverse community members in three popular open source projects. Our analysis results drew a complex picture of the relationships between, on the one hand, the sentiments and tones in the issue discussions, and on the other hand, various discussion and development-related measures such as the discussion length and the issue resolution time. We also found that when factors such as the issue poster roles and the issue types were controlled, sentiments and tones had varied associations with the measures. Insights gained from these findings can support open source community members in making and moderating effective issue discussions and guide the design of tools to better support community engagement.
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