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Towards Better Requirements from the Crowd: Developer Engagement with Feature Requests in Open Source Software
Pragyan K C, Rambod Ghandiparsi, Thomas Herron, John Heaps, Mitra Bokaei Hosseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13553

Towards Better Requirements from the Crowd: Developer Engagement with Feature Requests in Open Source Software
As user demands evolve, effectively incorporating feature requests is crucial for maintaining software relevance and user satisfaction. Feature requests, typically expressed in natural language, often suffer from ambiguity or incomplete information due to communication gaps or the requester's limited technical expertise. These issues can lead to misinterpretation, faulty implementation, and reduced software quality. While seeking clarification from requesters is a common strategy to mitigate th…