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"

The dataset is collected from GitHub API and GitHub GHTorrent dataset. A brief description of each folder is provided below:

1. "Dataset_and_Code" folder

Contains the final dataset and algorithms

2. "Test_parameters" folders 

Includes datasets under different parameters and the corresponding reproduction code, which corresponds to the first experiment of RQ1

3. "Compare_baseline"folder

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

4. "PLS" folder

Includes the dataset used by PLS and the corresponding reproduction code, which corresponds to experiment of RQ2

5. " Indicator_Calculation " folder
It contains the calculation methods for various metrics in the paper, as well as the corresponding key files. 

6. " Appendix " folder
It includes supplementary materials such as the methodology for metric calculations to address the reviewers' questions. 

Note

We have provided a corresponding README file in each folder to help others reproduce our results