How to make your pull request merged quickly… (article highlight)

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How Developers Modify Pull Requests in Code Review | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore

I must admit that I’m not the greatest contributor to OSS projects. Yes, I did a few of those and contributed to projects, but this is more like a hobby than a real work. My goal for 2022 is to make it better and even put together some docker containers to make my scripts more reusable. I even bought a book about Docker, which I’ve read and (theoretically) I’m good to go.

Anyways, I stumbled upon this work which is about how developers make good pull requests. The paper has examined OSS projects and found that you need to make a clear change as part of the pull request, you need to make a clear classification of that change and then you have a high chance that the pull request will be adopted soon.

Stay tuned for more on code reviews…

Author: Miroslaw Staron

I’m professor in Software Engineering at IT faculty. I usually blog about interesting articles (for me) and my own reflections on the development of Software Engineering, AI, computer science and automotive software.