Print Email Facebook Twitter Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub Title Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub Author Wessel, Mairieli (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Zaidman, A.E. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Gerosa, Marco Aurélio (Northern Arizona University) Steinmacher, Igor (Northern Arizona University) Date 2023 Abstract Projects on GitHub rely on the automation provided by software development bots. Nevertheless, the presence of bots can be annoying and disruptive to the community. Backed by multiple studies with practitioners, this article provides guidelines for developing and maintaining software bots. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b3f4d6d0-ee51-4032-b066-a735457d1335 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2022.3224813 Embargo date 2023-10-18 ISSN 0740-7459 Source IEEE Software, 40 (3), 72-79 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Mairieli Wessel, A.E. Zaidman, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher Files PDF Guidelines_for_Developing ... GitHub.pdf 3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b3f4d6d0-ee51-4032-b066-a735457d1335/datastream/OBJ/view