Datasets:

chrisellisNMTAFE
/

github-raw-with-comments-v2

---
pretty_name: GitHub Issues with Comments (huggingface/datasets)
license: other
license_name: upstream-apache-2.0-with-third-party-contributions
license_link: https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/main/LICENSE
language:
- en
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
task_categories:
- text-classification
- feature-extraction
- sentence-similarity
task_ids:
- sentiment-classification
- topic-classification
tags:
- github
- issues
- pull-requests
- comments
- software-engineering
- semantic-search
- sentiment-analysis
- education
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---
# GitHub Issues with Comments (`huggingface/datasets`)

A small, structured snapshot of issues and pull requests from the public [`huggingface/datasets`](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets) repository, **augmented with every comment thread and a set of derived fields**, collected through the GitHub REST API. It is used for two downstream demonstrations: sentiment analysis with a Transformers pipeline (Task 2) and semantic search with FAISS (Task 3).

> **Status:** educational dataset. It is a snapshot, not a maintained mirror of the repository. Do not use it to profile or evaluate individual people.

## Table of contents
1. [Dataset summary](#1-dataset-summary)
2. [Motivation and dataset selection](#2-motivation-and-dataset-selection)
3. [Dataset structure](#3-dataset-structure)
4. [Data collection process](#4-data-collection-process)
5. [Augmentation, cleaning and minimisation](#5-augmentation-cleaning-and-minimisation)
6. [Reliability and quality evaluation](#6-reliability-and-quality-evaluation)
7. [Licensing, attribution and permitted use](#7-licensing-attribution-and-permitted-use)
8. [Compliance with legislation and codes](#8-compliance-with-legislation-and-codes)
9. [Risk register and corrective actions](#9-risk-register-and-corrective-actions)
10. [Storage, locations and versioning](#10-storage-locations-and-versioning)
11. [Using the dataset](#11-using-the-dataset)
12. [Limitations and bias](#12-limitations-and-bias)
13. [Maintenance, takedown and contact](#13-maintenance-takedown-and-contact)
14. [References and citation](#14-references-and-citation)

---

## 1. Dataset summary

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | GitHub REST API, `GET /repos/huggingface/datasets/issues` and `/issues/{number}/comments` |
| Content | Issues **and** pull requests (the issues endpoint returns both), `state=all` |
| Sampling | The most recent N items by creation date (not a random sample) |
| Records | 5,000 (2,862 pull requests and 2,138 issues; 3,641 closed and 1,359 open); 38 columns (28 from the API plus 10 added); about 24.6 MB as Parquet |
| Comments | 13,297 comment texts across 4,084 items that have comments (the API's own counts sum to 13,302; see section 6) |
| Date range | 2022-02-16T15:20:57Z to 2026-10-29T22:11:42Z (`created_at`) |
| Collected | 2026-10-30T06:37:26 UTC (also stored per row in `collected_at`) |
| Language | English |
| Split | `train` only |
| Format | Parquet (Hub default), loadable with `datasets` |

Exact counts are generated automatically by the collection notebook and published in [`dataset_stats.json`](./dataset_stats.json); the table above was filled in from the executed run of that notebook.

## 2. Motivation and dataset selection

**Why was it created?** To give a realistic, openly accessible text corpus for practising the full data workflow used in AI projects: sourcing through an API, augmentation, publication, sentiment analysis and semantic retrieval.

**Why this source?**

| Criterion | Justification |
|---|---|
| Relevance | Issue trackers are a standard source for NLP tasks such as triage, duplicate detection, tone analysis and search. |
| Accessibility | Public repository, documented and versioned REST API; no HTML scraping needed. |
| Richness | Free text (title, body, comments) plus structured fields (state, labels, dates, author association). |
| Reliability | Retrieved from the platform of record, not a third-party copy; each row links back to its source URL. |
| Low ethical risk | Public, open-source project; profile objects are removed and contact details redacted (section 5). |
| Fit for tasks | Mixed lengths and content types (bug reports, feature requests, documentation, release PRs) make retrieval and sentiment evaluation meaningful. |

## 3. Dataset structure

### 3.1 Added (augmented) fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `comments` | list[string] | Text of every comment on the item (e-mails/secrets redacted). Replaces the API's integer field of the same name. |
| `comments_count` | int | The API's original comment count (used to validate completeness). |
| `is_pull_request` | bool | True when the item has a `pull_request` object. |
| `label_names` | list[string] | Flattened label names. |
| `days_to_close` | float or null | Days between `created_at` and `closed_at`; null while open. |
| `created_year` | int | Year opened. |
| `title_word_count`, `body_word_count` | int | Simple length features. |
| `has_body` | bool | Whether a non-empty body exists. |
| `source_repo` | string | Always `huggingface/datasets`; supports attribution. |
| `collected_at` | string (ISO 8601, UTC) | Collection timestamp for provenance. |

### 3.2 Retained GitHub API fields (main ones)
`id`, `node_id`, `number`, `title`, `body`, `state`, `state_reason`, `locked`, `labels`, `created_at`, `updated_at`, `closed_at`, `author_association`, `draft`, `html_url`, `url`, `repository_url`, `labels_url`, `comments_url`, `events_url`, `timeline_url`, `pull_request` (links and `merged_at` only), `reactions` (counts), `closed_by`, and the API fields `type`, `active_lock_reason` and `issue_field_values`, which were empty in this snapshot (`type` and `active_lock_reason` are 100% null).

> **Known issue: `closed_by`.** This field is the GitHub user object of whoever closed the item (profile and avatar URLs, from which the account handle can be read). It is populated for the 3,641 closed items (72.8%), with 473 distinct values. It was **not** removed in v1.0.0 even though the other user objects were (see 3.3 and risk R1). Do not use it to profile contributors. Planned fix: drop it in a patch release (`v1.0.1`).
### 3.3 Fields deliberately removed
`user`, `assignee`, `assignees` (names, profile links, avatars), `performed_via_github_app`, `milestone`. (`closed_by` was *not* removed; see the known issue in 3.2.)
### 3.4 Example record (abridged)
```json
{
  "number": 1234,
  "title": "Loading a large dataset is very slow",
  "state": "closed",
  "author_association": "NONE",
  "is_pull_request": false,
  "label_names": ["bug"],
  "comments_count": 2,
  "comments": ["Thanks for reporting, can you share your version?", "Fixed in the latest release."],
  "days_to_close": 3.5,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/1234",
  "source_repo": "huggingface/datasets"
}
```
## 4. Data collection process
1. **Authentication.** A GitHub personal access token with read-only access to public data was stored in Kaggle Secrets and sent as a `Bearer` header. The token is never written to code, logs, or the dataset.
2. **Issue download.** `requests` paged through `/repos/huggingface/datasets/issues?state=all&per_page=100&sort=created&direction=desc`, following the `Link: rel="next"` header until the target number of items was reached.
3. **Resilience.** Each response status is checked; HTTP 403/429 responses trigger a wait until `X-RateLimit-Reset`/`Retry-After`; 5xx responses use exponential back-off; progress is cached so a failure does not require a full re-download. The collection stays inside GitHub's authenticated limit (5,000 requests/hour).
4. **Comment download.** For every item with `comments > 0`, `/issues/{number}/comments` was fetched with pagination (the original tutorial only reads the first page). Only the comment text is retained; commenter profile data is discarded.
5. **Validation.** Duplicate ids, date range, PR/issue split, empty bodies and comment counts were checked and saved to `dataset_stats.json`.
6. **Publication.** The table was built with `Dataset.from_list`, pushed to the Hub with a write-scoped Hugging Face token, round-trip verified (5,000 rows and 38 columns after reload) and tagged (`v1.0.0`).

Notebook: `task-1-creating-a-dataset.ipynb` (location in section 10). Parameters (`OWNER`, `REPO`, `NUM_ISSUES = 5000`) are defined in its first code cell so the process can be repeated. Executed run: 5,000 issues and PRs downloaded, 0 duplicate ids, and 4,084 comment threads fetched (every item with `comments > 0`).

## 5. Augmentation, cleaning and minimisation

| Stage | What was done | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Augmentation | Added `comments`, `comments_count`, `is_pull_request`, `label_names`, `days_to_close`, `created_year`, length features, provenance fields | Enables conversation-level analysis and filtering; supports reproducibility |
| De-duplication | Removed repeated records by GitHub `id` (0 duplicates found in this run; 5,000 in, 5,000 out) | Pagination on an active repository can repeat items |
| Data minimisation | Dropped `user`, `assignee`, `assignees`, `performed_via_github_app`, `milestone`. **Gap found after the run:** `closed_by` was retained (section 3.2) | Removes names, profile URLs and avatars that analysis does not need; the `closed_by` omission is a documented residual risk (R1) |
| Redaction | Regex replacement of e-mail addresses (`[EMAIL]`) and credential-like strings for GitHub, Hugging Face and AWS keys (`[REDACTED_SECRET]`); counts recorded in `dataset_stats.json` (this run: 45 e-mail replacements and 22 secret-like matches, not manually reviewed, so some may be false positives) | Prevents republishing contact details or leaked secrets |
| Left as is | `@mentions` in free text, original text of titles/bodies/comments, code blocks | Mentions are public handles and cannot be separated from code decorators (e.g. `@property`); raw text is preserved so users can choose their own cleaning |

Further, task-specific cleaning (removing HTML comments and template text, shortening code blocks, dropping empty or duplicate texts) is performed **inside the Task 2 and Task 3 notebooks** and does not modify the published data.

## 6. Reliability and quality evaluation

| Dimension | Evaluation | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Source authority | High: official API, items link back to GitHub | `html_url`, `source_repo` |
| Completeness | Medium-high: 13,297 comment texts were collected against 13,302 reported by the API (99.96%, net 5 fewer). The automated per-item check (`comment_lists_match_counts`) came back `false`, so at least one item has more fetched comments than its original count (most likely comments posted between the issue download and the comment download); the net shortfall suggests other items have fewer (for example deleted comments). Per-item reconciliation has not yet been done (risk R9) | `comments_count` vs `len(comments)`, `dataset_stats.json` |
| Accuracy | High for metadata (machine-generated by GitHub); text is as written by authors, including typos and non-English fragments | n/a |
| Currency | A snapshot: state, labels and comments change after `collected_at` | `collected_at` |
| Consistency | Mixed record types (issues and PRs) are flagged by `is_pull_request`; some PRs have templated or empty bodies | `has_body`, `is_pull_request` |
| Representativeness | Low-medium: one project, newest N items, English, technical audience | section 12 |
| Documentation | Full: this card, `dataset_stats.json`, notebooks, pinned release tag | section 10 |

Missing-value profile (from the Task 1 and Task 2 notebooks): `body` is empty for 388 items (7.8%); `closed_at`, `closed_by` and `days_to_close` are null for the 1,359 open items (27.2%) by design; `state_reason` is null for 72.4%; `pull_request` and `draft` are null for the 2,138 issues (42.8%); `type` and `active_lock_reason` are 100% null.

## 7. Licensing, attribution and permitted use

- **Upstream project:** `huggingface/datasets` is released under Apache-2.0.
- **Third-party content:** issue and comment text is authored by many individuals who retain rights in their contributions. Apache-2.0 on the code repository does not by itself relicense every comment, so this card uses `license: other` instead of claiming a blanket open licence.
- **Attribution:** each row carries `html_url` and `source_repo`. Credit the GitHub authors and the `huggingface/datasets` project when reusing text.
- **Permitted use:** education, teaching, and non-commercial research and prototyping, subject to the GitHub Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies (including the prohibition on using API-collected personal information for spam or sale) and the Hugging Face Terms and Content Policy.
- **Not permitted / out of scope:** profiling, ranking or targeting individual contributors; re-identification; unsolicited contact; use as sole evidence for decisions about people; training systems intended to impersonate contributors.
- **Commercial use:** not assessed. Obtain separate legal advice first.

This card documents the author's good-faith interpretation and is not legal advice.

## 8. Compliance with legislation and codes

### 8.1 Legislation and external codes

| Instrument | Relevance to this dataset | How it is addressed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and Australian Privacy Principles** (APP 1 open management, APP 3 collection, APP 6 use/disclosure, APP 11 security) | Applies directly to many APP entities; used here as the benchmark for good practice. | Collection limited to public data needed for the purpose; most profile objects dropped (the `closed_by` object remains until `v1.0.1`, see R1); e-mails redacted; security of tokens and storage described; takedown route provided | Aligned (best practice) |
| **Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)** | Issue/comment text is copyright of its authors; Australian fair-dealing exceptions (research or study) are narrower than US fair use and there is no general text-and-data-mining exception | Educational, non-commercial purpose; attribution via `html_url`; `license: other` with explicit explanation; takedown process; no claim of ownership | Residual risk: see R2 |
| **GDPR (EU) 2016/679** | Some contributors may be in the EU; extraterritorial reach is arguable | Applied as a precaution: data minimisation, purpose limitation, storage limitation and an erasure/objection route | Precautionary |
| **GitHub Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policies and API terms** | Governs how data may be collected and reused | Official API only; authenticated; rate limits respected; no scraping of HTML; no use for spam or sale of personal information | Aligned |
| **Hugging Face Terms of Service and Content Policy** | Governs hosting the dataset publicly | Public repository, accurate card, no illegal or sensitive personal content intended; takedown route | Aligned |
| **Australia's AI Ethics Principles (2019, voluntary)** | Guidance for AI projects | See 8.2 | Aligned |
| **Datasheets for Datasets (Gebru et al.)** | Widely used documentation standard for datasets | Sections 2 to 13 follow its Motivation, Composition, Collection, Preprocessing, Uses, Distribution and Maintenance structure | Aligned |

### 8.2 Alignment with Australia's AI Ethics Principles

| Principle | How it is reflected |
|---|---|
| Privacy protection and security | Minimisation, redaction, scoped tokens, secret management |
| Fairness | Bias and representativeness limits documented (section 12); no attribute inference |
| Transparency and explainability | Full collection and processing documentation; "behind the pipeline" demonstration in Task 2 |
| Reliability and safety | Validation checks, round-trip verification, known limitations of the sentiment model |
| Contestability | Takedown/correction route (section 13) |
| Accountability | Named maintainer, versioning, changelog |
| Human-centred values and wellbeing | Intended-use limits prohibit profiling or targeting of individuals |
| Human, social and environmental wellbeing | Small CPU-friendly corpus and model choices keep compute use low |

## 9. Risk register and corrective actions

Likelihood (L) and Impact (I): Low / Medium / High, assessed after current controls.

| # | Risk | L | I | Controls in place | Corrective action / future mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | **Personal information** in free text (names, handles, contact details) and in the retained `closed_by` object | M | M | Most profile objects dropped; e-mails and secret-like strings redacted (45 and 22 replacements); `closed_by` **not** yet removed | **Drop `closed_by` (profile and avatar URLs retained in v1.0.0, see 3.2) in `v1.0.1`**; add NER-based detection (e.g. Presidio) for names and phone numbers; evaluate pseudonymising `@mentions`; remove affected rows on request |
| R2 | **Copyright / licence ambiguity** of third-party text | M | M | `license: other` with explanation; attribution URLs; educational scope; takedown process | Seek legal or IP guidance; consider publishing only IDs plus a re-download script if advised |
| R3 | **Credential leakage** (GitHub/HF tokens in code, logs or data) | L | H | Kaggle Secrets; read-only GitHub token; secret-pattern redaction in text; tokens never printed | Rotate tokens once the dataset is finalised; add pre-push secret scanning (e.g. detect-secrets); revoke immediately if exposure is suspected and follow standard incident-response steps |
| R4 | **Harmful or toxic language** in issues or comments | L | M | Public, moderated project; intended use is analysis not generation | Add toxicity screening and a content warning if the dataset is reused for model training |
| R5 | **Sampling and representation bias** (single repo, newest N, English, developer audience) | H | M | Documented limitations; analysis restricted to comparisons within the data | Collect from several repositories; use stratified sampling over time and issue type |
| R6 | **Staleness / irreproducibility** (items change after collection) | H | L | `collected_at` per row; commit SHA and release tag; cached raw download | Scheduled re-collection with new semantic version and changelog |
| R7 | **Misuse for profiling individuals** | L | H | Author fields removed; prohibited uses stated | Monitor Community tab; restrict or remove the dataset if misuse is reported |
| R8 | **Breach of API terms or rate limits** | L | M | Official API only; authenticated; wait-and-retry; no HTML scraping | Review GitHub terms before any scale-up |
| R9 | **Incomplete or inconsistent data** (truncated comment lists, comments added or deleted during collection) | H (observed) | L | Status-code checks, retries, validation of comment counts; the check flagged a mismatch in this run (13,297 collected vs 13,302 expected) | Identify the affected items, re-fetch them, and make the validation fail loudly rather than only recording `false` in `dataset_stats.json` |
| R10 | **Prompt injection** (issue text containing instructions aimed at LLM tools) when the data is used with LLMs | L | M | Notebooks use classification and embeddings only, not instruction-following | Treat text as untrusted input; sandbox and filter before use in LLM agents |
| R11 | **Misinterpretation of sentiment results** (movie-review model on technical text) | H | M | Limitations quantified in Task 2: 96.2% of items labelled NEGATIVE; all 6 neutral technical probe sentences labelled NEGATIVE (confidence 0.994 to 0.999); 7.6% of items truncated; small human audit | Fine-tune or evaluate a software-engineering sentiment model with human labels |

## 10. Storage, locations and versioning

| Artefact | Location | Access / protection | Version identifier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published dataset and this card | Hugging Face Hub: `https://huggingface.co/datasets/chrisellisNMTAFE/github-raw-with-comments-v2` | Public read; write requires the owner's authenticated account token over HTTPS | Git tag `v1.0.0` points to commit `497d364f2bf849a720ddd478c3eb3c2d78c500a2` (data and statistics, created 2026-10-30 07:02 UTC). Tasks 2 and 3 are pinned to commit `f9553a35bc834bb84191c85a874b96599e7cc293` (2026-10-30 07:05 UTC), the first commit that carries this full card |
| Collection statistics | `dataset_stats.json` in the same repository | Public | Same commit |
| Task 1 notebook (collection and publication) | Kaggle notebook `task-1-creating-a-dataset` (<https://www.kaggle.com/code/chrisellis20167561/task-1-creating-a-dataset>); exported copy `task-1-creating-a-dataset.ipynb` | Owner account; access control per platform | Executed 2026-10-30 |
| Task 2 notebook and outputs (`outputs_task2/`: figures and `sentiment_results.csv`) | Kaggle notebook `task-2-sentiment-analysis` (<https://www.kaggle.com/code/chrisellis20167561/task-2-sentiment-analysis>); outputs in `/kaggle/working/outputs_task2` | Owner account | Ran against dataset commit `f9553a35bc834bb84191c85a874b96599e7cc293` |
| Task 3 notebook and outputs (`outputs_task3/`: embeddings, FAISS index, run record) | Kaggle notebook `task-3-semantic-search-with-faiss` (<https://www.kaggle.com/code/chrisellis20167561/task-3-semantic-search-with-faiss>); outputs in `outputs_task3/` | Owner account | Dataset commit `f9553a35bc834bb84191c85a874b96599e7cc293`; `datasets` 4.8.5, `sentence-transformers` 5.7.0, `faiss-cpu` 1.15.1, `scikit-learn` 1.6.1, `pandas` 2.3.3, `numpy` 2.1.3, seed 42 |
| Raw API dump and comment cache (`outputs/*.jsonl`, `*-cache.json`) | Private notebook working directory only; **never uploaded** | Private; deleted once the dataset is finalised | n/a |
| Secrets (GitHub token, Hugging Face token) | Kaggle Secrets (or environment variables when run locally) | Never stored in notebooks, outputs or the dataset; revocable in provider settings | Rotated once the dataset is finalised |

**Versioning scheme.** Semantic versions are applied as Hub tags. A patch (`v1.0.1`) fixes errors without schema change; a minor version (`v1.1.0`) adds rows or fields compatibly; a major version (`v2.0.0`) changes the schema or sampling. Downstream notebooks pin `revision=<commit SHA>` for exact reproducibility (Tasks 2 and 3 pin `f9553a35bc834bb84191c85a874b96599e7cc293`). The data file is the same in both commits (5,000 rows, 38 columns, about 24.6 MB Parquet); later commits that only edit this card do not change the data.

**Changelog**

| Version | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-30 | First release of this repository: 5,000 issues and PRs with comments, derived fields, minimisation and redaction. The tag sits on the data commit `497d364f`; the full card was added in the next commit `f9553a35` |
| v1.0.1 (planned) | Not yet scheduled | Drop `closed_by`; reconcile comment counts (see R1 and R9) |

## 11. Using the dataset

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("chrisellisNMTAFE/github-raw-with-comments-v2", split="train")
# Reproducible: pin the exact commit
# ds = load_dataset("chrisellisNMTAFE/github-raw-with-comments-v2", split="train", revision="f9553a35bc834bb84191c85a874b96599e7cc293")
df = ds.to_pandas()
issues_only = df[~df["is_pull_request"]]
```

Companion notebooks: **Task 2** (sentiment analysis with `distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english`, including a manual tokenization, model and post-processing walkthrough) and **Task 3** (embeddings with `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, FAISS cosine index, retrieval evaluation, bias and coverage-gap analysis).

**Measured outcomes of the companion notebooks (executed 2026-10-30)**

| Task | Result |
|---|---|
| Task 2: coverage | 4,896 of 5,000 items classified (104 dropped for fewer than 3 words after cleaning); 2,000 sampled comments classified separately |
| Task 2: distribution | 96.2% NEGATIVE, 3.8% POSITIVE; median confidence 0.999; 3.6% of predictions below 0.9 confidence |
| Task 2: groups | NEGATIVE share: issues 97.8% vs pull requests 94.9%; open 97.1% vs closed 95.8%; by year 94.8% to 97.6%; comments 85.0% |
| Task 2: limits tested | 6 of 6 neutral technical probe sentences labelled NEGATIVE (0.994 to 0.999); 7.6% of items exceed 512 tokens; a 20-item audit judged 16 neutral, with 3 of 4 non-neutral items agreeing with the model (too small for firm conclusions) |
| Task 3: indexing | 4,835 records embedded after cleaning (103 under 3 words, 62 exact duplicates removed); 384 dimensions; exact cosine index (`IndexFlatIP`); self-retrieval 100%; saved and reloaded index identical |
| Task 3: retrieval quality | precision@5 on four queries: documentation 1.0, feature request 0.8, performance 0.8, crash 0.2 (provisional judgements from titles and snippets); semantic and keyword top-5 overlapped by 0 to 1 items |
| Task 3: bias and coverage | retrieved items had a median of 31 words against 79 in the corpus; 44.6% of records never retrieved in 500 probe searches (Gini 0.62); 37.2% of records exceed the 256-token window; 0.8% have a near-duplicate; out-of-domain query top-1 cosine 0.339 against 0.418 to 0.685 in-domain |

**Intended uses:** teaching data collection and AI workflows; prototyping text classification, clustering and semantic search on software-engineering text.

**Out-of-scope uses:** see section 7.

## 12. Limitations and bias

- **Single-source, English, technical text.** Findings do not generalise to other projects or non-developer language.
- **Newest-N sampling.** The corpus over-represents recent releases and workflows. It is not a random sample of the project's history.
- **Mixed record types.** Pull requests often contain templated or terse bodies that differ from issue text.
- **Snapshot.** States, labels and comments change after collection. Comment totals differ slightly from the API's counts (13,297 vs 13,302).
- **Retained `closed_by` object.** Profile and avatar URLs of the user who closed an item remain in this version (section 3.2).
- **No human annotation.** The dataset contains no sentiment or topic labels; any labels produced by the companion notebooks are model predictions.
- **Sentiment-model mismatch.** The SST-2 model was trained on movie reviews and has no neutral class. Technical words such as "error" or "fail" can push predictions towards NEGATIVE, and in this snapshot 96.2% of items were labelled NEGATIVE, including neutral sentences such as "Fix typo in the README." Compare groups rather than reading absolute percentages.
- **Search bias and coverage gaps.** Embedding search favours well-represented topics, can return near-duplicates and truncates text beyond 256 tokens (37.2% of cleaned records); in the Task 3 run, retrieved items were much shorter than the corpus (median 31 vs 79 words) and 44.6% of records were never retrieved in 500 probe searches.
## 13. Maintenance, takedown and contact
- **Maintainer:** `chrisellisNMTAFE` on Hugging Face.
- **Corrections, removal and objection requests:** open a thread in this repository's **Community** tab or contact the maintainer. Requests from individuals to remove their content will be actioned by deleting the affected rows and publishing a new version.
- **Security issues** (for example an exposed credential): report privately to the maintainer; the credential will be revoked and rotated and the data corrected.
- **Update plan:** no scheduled updates; new versions only for fixes or on request (see section 10).
## 14. References and citation
- GitHub REST API, Issues: <https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues>
- GitHub REST API, rate limits: <https://docs.github.com/en/rest/rate-limit>
- GitHub Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies: <https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy>
- Hugging Face course, *Creating your own dataset*: <https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter5/5>
- Hugging Face course, *Behind the pipeline*: <https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter2/2>
- Hugging Face course, *Semantic search with FAISS*: <https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter5/6>
- Hugging Face Hub, *Dataset cards*: <https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/datasets-cards>
- Gebru, T. et al. (2021). *Datasheets for Datasets*. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010>
- Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and Australian Privacy Principles, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: <https://www.oaic.gov.au>
- Copyright Act 1968 (Cth): <https://www.legislation.gov.au>
- Australia's AI Ethics Principles (Department of Industry, Science and Resources): <https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/australias-artificial-intelligence-ethics-framework/australias-ai-ethics-principles>
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR): <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj>
**Suggested citation**
```bibtex
@misc{github_issues_with_comments_2026,
  title        = {GitHub Issues with Comments (huggingface/datasets)},
  author       = {chrisellisNMTAFE},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face Datasets},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/chrisellisNMTAFE/github-raw-with-comments-v2},
  note         = {Educational snapshot of issues and pull requests from github.com/huggingface/datasets}
}
```
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