Predicting the number of forks for open source software project
Fangwei Chen, Lei Li, Jing Jiang, Li Zhang · 2014
GitHub is successful open source software platform which attract many developers. In GitHub, developers are allowed to fork repositories and copy repositories without asking for permission, which make contribution to projects much easier than it has ever been. It is significant to predict the number of forks for open source software projects. The prediction can help GitHub to recommend popular projects, and guide developers to find projects which are likely to succeed and worthy of their contribution.