Nudge: Accelerating Overdue Pull Requests Towards Completion. (arXiv:2011.12468v5 [cs.SE] UPDATED)

Pull requests are a key part of the collaborative software development and
code review process today. However, pull requests can also slow down the
software development process when the reviewer(s) or the author do not actively
engage with the pull request. In this work, we design an end-to-end service,
Nudge, for accelerating overdue pull requests towards completion by reminding
the author or the reviewer(s) to engage with their overdue pull requests.
First, we use models based on effort estimation and …

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