With available tools and datasets existing on GitHub ecosystem, researchers have the opportunities to study diverse software engineering problems on a large-scale dataset. However, there are many potential threats when researchers try to directly use large-scale datasets, and one important threat is that GitHub contains many private projects (e.g., homework) and non-development projects (e.g., blog). For researchers who want to study cooperative behavior of developers or development process of projects, their research samples should not contain private projects and non-development projects. To...
