Example of a code suggestion in a GitHub pull request.

Example of a code suggestion in a GitHub pull request.

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GitHub introduced the suggestion feature to enable reviewers to explicitly suggest code modifications in pull requests. These suggestions make the reviewers' feedback more actionable for the submitters and represent a valuable knowledge for newcomers. Still, little is known about how code review suggestions are used by developers, what impact they...

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... suggested change can undergo one or more such iterations should the intent of the reviewer be misunderstood. In contrast, code review suggestions, depicted in Figure 1, have the advantage of making the reviewer's feedback more structured and actionable by letting the reviewer implement their suggestion directly in the source code and enabling the submitter to integrate it with a single or bundled commit. Code review suggestions also make project best practices explicit through concrete code examples, which may provide guidance for future contributors lacking project experience [7], [8]. ...

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