Replication package of the Paper "On the Relationships between the Initial Ecology Indicators of OSS Projects and Their Long-Term Popularity: An Exploratory Study on GitHub"

<p>The dataset is collected from GitHub API and GitHub GHTorrent dataset. A brief description of each folder is provided below:</p> <p><strong>1. "Dataset_and_Code" folder</strong></p> <p>Contains the final dataset and algorithms</p> <p><strong>2. "Test_parameters" folders&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Includes datasets under different parameters and the corresponding reproduction code, which corresponds to the first experiment of RQ1</p> <p><strong>3. "Compare_baseline"folder</strong></p> <p>Includes the dataset used by our method, the dataset used by the baseline method, and the reproduction code, corresponding to the second experiment of RQ1</p> <p><strong>4. "PLS" folder</strong></p> <p>Includes the dataset used by PLS and the corresponding reproduction code, which corresponds to experiment of RQ2</p> <p><strong>5. " Indicator_Calculation " folder</strong><br>It contains the calculation methods for various metrics in the paper, as well as the corresponding key&nbsp;files.&nbsp;</p> <p><span><strong>6. " Appendix " folder</strong><br></span><span>It includes supplementary materials such as the methodology for metric calculations to address the reviewers' questions.</span>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Note</strong></p> <p>We have provided a corresponding README file in each folder to help others reproduce our results</p>