OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT MAINTENANCE INTELLIGENTBOTS THAT CAN MANAGE PULL REQUESTS, SUGGEST IMPROVEMENTS, AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THE CODE QUALITY OF COMMUNITY DRIVEN PROJECTS (ACTING AS TIRELESS COLLABORATORS FOR PROJECT MAINTAINERS).

The development of open-source software has become entirely dependent on the community collaboration, but the
project maintainers usually experience difficulties in handling the pull requests, maintaining the quality of the codes
and organizing the various contributions. The paper examines the use of smart bots to resolve these issues, as
inexhaustible assistants to open-source project maintainers. Bots improve the efficiency and scale of open-source
projects by automating the process of handling pull requests, proposing code improvements, and placing quality
controls on them. The article is a literature review of the advantages and disadvantages of bots in open-source
maintenance, providing information on how automation enhances productivity and the quality of code. Relying on the
case studies, real-life examples, the article shows how bots can streamline maintenance processes, improve the level
of contributor interaction, and decrease the workload on project maintainers. The paper also discusses how AIcontrolled bots can advance and become an integral part of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
pipelines, which will mark the beginning of the autonomous project management era in the open-source community.