---
dataset_info:
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  - name: repository_url
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  - name: labels_url
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  - name: comments_url
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  - name: number
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  - name: title
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    - name: followers_url
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    - name: type
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    - name: url
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    - name: user_view_type
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    - name: default
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    - name: description
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    - name: name
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    - name: node_id
      dtype: string
    - name: url
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  - name: state
    dtype: string
  - name: locked
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  - name: assignee
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      dtype: string
    - name: events_url
      dtype: string
    - name: followers_url
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    - name: following_url
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    - name: subscriptions_url
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    - name: type
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    - name: url
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    - name: user_view_type
      dtype: string
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    - name: events_url
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  - name: updated_at
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  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 19858962
    num_examples: 3261
  download_size: 6273920
  dataset_size: 19858962
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
tags:
- github
- issues
- huggingface
- datasets
- 3000-5000
pretty_name: Hugging Face Datasets GitHub Issues
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
# Dataset Card for Dataset Name

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

This dataset is a collection of **GitHub Issue and Pull Request metadata** scraped from the public **`huggingface/datasets`** repository using the GitHub REST API. It contains **3,261 distinct issue records** (excluding pull requests) that were extracted from an initial fetch of 7,808 samples. The data provides a rich corpus of **real-world technical communication** focused on open-source software development, covering the repository's activity up to late 2025.

The data provides a rich corpus of **real-world technical communication**, primarily in **English (en)**, focused on the **open-source software development** domain of the `datasets` library. The dataset was curated to offer a clean, usable source for tasks like **issue classification** and **summarization** within a highly technical context.

## Uses

This simplified dataset primarily supports tasks based on textual content and intrinsic labels (`state`).

**text-classification: Issue State Classification**
The dataset can be used to train a model for **Issue State Classification**, which consists in **predicting whether an issue/pull request is currently 'open' or 'closed'** based solely on its `title` and `body` text. Success on this task is typically measured by achieving a high **Accuracy** or **F1-score**.

**other:issue-summarization**
The dataset can be used to train a model for **Issue Summarization** (Sequence-to-Sequence), which consists in **generating a concise title/summary** given the longer `body` text of the issue. Success on this task is typically measured by achieving a high **ROUGE-L** score.

**other:issue-type-classification**
The dataset can be used to train a model for **Issue Type Classification**, which consists in **classifying whether a record represents a bug, a feature request, or general question** (derived or annotated from the `title` and `body` fields).

### Languages

The primary language represented in the dataset is **English (en)** (BCP-47 code: `en`), consistent with standard practice for global open-source projects. The text is technical, informal, and conversational, reflecting developer communication on a platform like GitHub.


## Dataset Structure

{
  "url": "String",
  "repository_url": "String",
  "labels_url": "String",
  "comments_url": "String",
  "events_url": "String",
  "html_url": "String",
  "id": "Integer",
  "node_id": "String",
  "number": "Integer",
  "title": "String",
  "user": {
    "login": "String",
    "id": "Integer",
    "node_id": "String",
    "avatar_url": "String",
    // ... (other user fields)
    "site_admin": "Boolean"
  },
  "labels": [
    // List of Structs
    {
      "name": "String",
      "color": "String",
      "id": "Integer"
      // ... (other label fields)
    }
  ],
  "state": "String",
  "locked": "Boolean",
  "assignee": "Null/Struct",
  "assignees": [
    // List of Structs (User objects)
  ],
  "milestone": "Null/Struct",
  "comments": "Integer",
  "created_at": "Timestamp",
  "updated_at": "Timestamp",
  "closed_at": "Timestamp/Null",
  "author_association": "String",
  "type": "String",
  "active_lock_reason": "Null/String",
  "draft": "Boolean",
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "String",
    "html_url": "String",
    "diff_url": "String",
    "patch_url": "String",
    "merged_at": "Timestamp/Null"
  },
  "body": "String",
  "closed_by": "Null/Struct",
  "reactions": {
    "url": "String",
    "total_count": "Integer"
    // ... (other reaction counts)
  },
  "timeline_url": "String",
  "performed_via_github_app": "Null",
  "state_reason": "Null/String"
}

### Data Fields
All original fields are retained except for milestone. This includes complex nested structures and all timestamps.

id: int64. The unique GitHub identifier.

number: int64. The sequential issue/PR number.

title: string. The title of the issue/PR (Primary input).

state: string. The current status (open or closed).

comments: int32. The number of comments.

created_at: timestamp. The creation time.

updated_at: timestamp. The last update time.

closed_at: timestamp. The closure time (null if open).

user: struct. Metadata about the author.

labels: list[struct]. A list of labels applied.

pull_request: struct. Metadata specific to a Pull Request (includes merged_at timestamp).

body: string. The main text description (Primary input).

assignees: list[struct]. A list of assigned users.

reactions: struct. Reaction counts (e.g., +1, heart).

milestone: (DROPPED) This is the only field removed in normalization.

### Data Splits

| Split Name | Sample Type | Number of Examples |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| initial_fetch | Issues & PRs | 7,808 |
| train | Pure Issues | 3,261 |

### Criteria for Splitting: 

The data was collected as a single stream and is presented as one split (train).

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

The dataset was curated to provide a high-quality corpus of pure issues for supervised learning. The primary motivation was to: 1) Separate Issues from PRs to avoid class confusion; 2) Augment Issues with Comments to provide the full conversational context necessary for realistic AI applications like automatic issue response or summarization.

### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Process: Data was collected using the GitHub REST API (/repos/huggingface/datasets/issues) with state=all, resulting in 7,808 total records (issues and PRs).

Separation: The initial records were filtered to include only records where the pull_request field was null, resulting in 3,261 issues.

Augmentation: A subsequent fetch was performed to retrieve all associated comments for each of the 3,261 issues.

Normalization: Only the milestone field was explicitly dropped prior to saving the .jsonl file. All other original fields were retained intact.

### Who are the source language producers?

The data was human-generated by developers, engineers, and community members interacting with the huggingface/datasets repository on GitHub.


## Personal and Sensitive Information

Fields like user contain publicly available GitHub login names and user IDs, which are considered personal identifiers.
The raw text in the body field may contain indirect personal or sensitive information posted by users.

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Discussion of Biases

The primary bias is Selection Bias: The data is specific to the datasets library and is heavily biased toward technical, engineering, and machine learning terminology.

## Additional Information

### Licensing Information

The source data is derived from a public GitHub repository under the Apache-2.0 License.