Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories

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Main Authors: Raaj, Amir Hossain, Meem, Fairuz Nawer, Mim, Sadia Afrin
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Published: 2025
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author Raaj, Amir Hossain
Meem, Fairuz Nawer
Mim, Sadia Afrin
author_facet Raaj, Amir Hossain
Meem, Fairuz Nawer
Mim, Sadia Afrin
contents GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community. Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties. Having labels on those issues can help developers easily address those issues with prior knowledge of labels. However, most of the GitHub repositories do not maintain regular labeling for the issues. The goal of this work is to classify issues in the open-source community using ML \& DNN models. There are thousands of open-source repositories on GitHub. Some of the repositories label their issues properly whereas some of them do not. When issues are pre-labeled, the problem-solving process and the immediate assignment of corresponding personnel are facilitated for the team, thereby expediting the development process. In this work, we conducted an analysis of prominent GitHub open-source repositories. We classified the issues in some common labels which are: API, Documentation, Enhancement, Question, Easy, Help-wanted, Dependency, CI, Waiting for OP's response, Test, Bug, etc. Our study shows that DNN models outperf
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Raaj, Amir Hossain
Meem, Fairuz Nawer
Mim, Sadia Afrin
Software Engineering
GitHub is the most widely used platform for software maintenance in the open-source community. Developers report issues on GitHub from time to time while facing difficulties. Having labels on those issues can help developers easily address those issues with prior knowledge of labels. However, most of the GitHub repositories do not maintain regular labeling for the issues. The goal of this work is to classify issues in the open-source community using ML \& DNN models. There are thousands of open-source repositories on GitHub. Some of the repositories label their issues properly whereas some of them do not. When issues are pre-labeled, the problem-solving process and the immediate assignment of corresponding personnel are facilitated for the team, thereby expediting the development process. In this work, we conducted an analysis of prominent GitHub open-source repositories. We classified the issues in some common labels which are: API, Documentation, Enhancement, Question, Easy, Help-wanted, Dependency, CI, Waiting for OP's response, Test, Bug, etc. Our study shows that DNN models outperf
title Classifying Issues in Open-source GitHub Repositories
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18982