Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2024.3408448
Shuotong Bai;Huaxiao Liu;Enyan Dai;Lei Liu
Links between issues and pull requests (PRs) assist GitHub developers in tackling technical challenges, gaining development inspiration, and improving repository maintenance. In realistic repositories, these links are still insufficiently established. Aiming at this situation, existing works focus on issues and PRs themselves and employ text similarity with additional information like issue size to predict issue-PR links, yet their effectiveness is unsatisfactory. The limitation is that issues and PRs are not isolated on GitHub. Rather, they are related to multiple GitHub sources, including repositories and submitters, which, through their diverse relationships, can supply potential and crucial knowledge about technical domains, developmental insights, and cross-repository technical details. To this end, we propose A