Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub
Mairieli Wessel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Andy Zaidman (TU Delft - Software Engineering)
Marco Aurélio Gerosa (Northern Arizona University)
Igor Steinmacher (Northern Arizona University)
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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.