Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories

Citation: Yu Wu, Jessica Kropczynski, Raquel Prates, John M. Carroll Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories.
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Summary

Authors compared and contrasted curation repositories with software repositories using activity logs and analyzed the content of popular curation repositories. Results show that: (1) curation repositories have become a favorite category of repositories in GitHub; (2) curation repositories leverage collaborative features and practices native to GitHub in new ways; (3) curation repositories collect and preserve high-quality resources for the software developers’ community.