What is a project and what is a repository in Boa?

[chupanw]

The Dataset Statistics of Boa shows that Github September 2015 Full dataset has 7,830,023 projects but only 380,125 code repositories. It looks like each project on Github should at least correspond to one repository, so I would expect the number of projects to be equal or greater than the number of code repositories. What exactly is a project (repository) in the Boa dataset? Or did I miss something in the documentation? If that's the case, any pointer will be very much appreciated.

Thanks! 

[Robert E Dyer]

Sorry for the confusion.  The terminology is exactly what you are picturing.  We just didn’t manage to clone every project on Github (yet).  Instead we focused first on cloning the Java projects only, and hence we have around 380k repositories cloned.

Future datasets should close this gap and eventually, for Github datasets, it should be a 1:1 correlation.

- Robert

On Apr 11, 2016, at 8:46 PM, chupanw <chupa...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Dataset Statistics of Boa shows that Github September 2015 Full dataset has 7,830,023 projects but only 380,125 code repositories. It looks like each project on Github should at least correspond to one repository, so I would expect the number of projects to be equal or greater than the number of code repositories. What exactly is a project (repository) in the Boa dataset? Or did I miss something in the documentation? If that's the case, any pointer will be very much appreciated.

Thanks! 

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[chupanw]

Thanks a lot for the prompt reply. Now those numbers make much more sense.