DescribeEvents/github_repo_events

GitHub Repository Event Streams

Curated event sequences from GitHub repositories, designed for temporal point process (TPP) and marked temporal point process (MTPP) modeling. Each sequence captures the development activity of a single repository over a one-week window.

Schema

Each record is a dictionary with 8 fields:

Field	Type	Description
seq_idx	int	Sequence index
seq_len	int	Number of events in the sequence
description	str	Repository name, description, language, stars, and event window
metadata	str (JSON)	repo_name, stars, language, actors, time_unit
time_since_start	list[float]	Time since the first event (in time_unit, default hours)
time_since_last_event	list[float]	Time since the previous event (in time_unit, default hours)
type_event	list[str]	Event type labels (see below)
type_text	list[str]	Natural language description of each event

Event Types (8 categories)

Label	Description
issue_opened	New issue filed
issue_closed	Issue resolved/closed
pr_opened	Pull request opened
pr_merged	Pull request merged
push	Code pushed (with commit messages)
release	Release published
pr_reviewed	PR approved or changes requested
comment	Comment on issue, PR, or review

Curation Filters

Sequences are selected to represent moderately active, well-maintained repositories with balanced development activity:

Filter	Value	Description
min-raw-events	50	Min kept-type events in archive (pre-classification)
max-raw-events	300	Max kept-type events in archive (pre-classification)
min-events	60	Min classified events per sequence
max-events	80	Max classified events (skip, not truncate)
max-bot-fraction	0.2	Skip repos where >20% events are from bots
min-unique-types	5	At least 5 distinct event types
min-avg-text-len	150	Min average text length per event
max-type-fraction	0.5	No single event type >50% of events
min-actors	2	At least 2 unique contributors
max-actors	5	At most 5 unique contributors
require-description	true	Repo must have a description
require-english	true	All event texts must be in English (non-Latin script detection)

Example

{
  "seq_idx": 0,
  "seq_len": 68,
  "description": "GitHub repository example/repo: A web framework for building APIs (Python, 1,234 stars) Event window: June 01 - 07, 2024.",
  "metadata": "{\"repo_name\": \"example/repo\", \"stars\": \"1234\", \"language\": \"Python\", \"actors\": [\"alice\", \"bob\", \"charlie\"], \"time_unit\": \"hours\"}",
  "time_since_start": [0.0, 0.123, ...],
  "time_since_last_event": [0.0, 0.123, ...],
  "type_event": ["pr_opened", "comment", "pr_reviewed", ...],
  "type_text": ["Pull request opened by alice: Add new RPC endpoint...", ...]
}

Intended Use

• Training and evaluating temporal point process models
• Studying software development workflow patterns
• Benchmarking next-event prediction and event forecasting
• Modeling marked temporal point processes with rich text marks

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@dataset{github_repo_events_2024,
  title={GitHub Repository Event Streams},
  author={XiaoBB},
  year={2024},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/XiaoBB/github_repo_events},
  note={Curated from GH Archive, June 2024}
}