using multiple repositories

[tommens]

using multiple repositories

[AlexandreDecan]

In that case, I suggest that bodega supports both --repo (the default positional argument right now) and --accounts. If --repo is specified, then all accounts from given repository are considered. If --accounts is provided, then all accounts are considered (i.e. their comments are downloaded, regardless of the repositories where they were made). If both are provided, then only the specified accounts active in given repository should be considered, and only the comments within that repository are considered.

Additionally, --repo could be a list of repositories instead of a single repository. In that case, all accounts from given repositories are considered (but only comments within these repositories are downloaded and processed).

[tommens]

Yes, I think we should have a --repo that can actually take either a single or a list of repositories, just like --accounts can be a single or multiple accounts. I also very much like the other ideas suggested by @AlexandreDecan above.

[mehdigolzadeh]

But our model trained based on repository-user pair. Is it correct to predict an account based on comments from several repositories?

[AlexandreDecan]

You can check for this. I don't see any major reason why it would fail. Human comments will be more various, and bot comments are likely to be more similar.

[mehdigolzadeh]

But increasing the number of repositories could increase the number of patterns for bots.

[AlexandreDecan]

But also their number of considered comments. The best you can do is to check for this based on the ground truth dataset: download extra comments for some accounts and see if the model is still somewhat reliable ;-)