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Technical debt (TD) refers to delayed tasks and immature artifacts that maybring short-term benefits but incur extra costs of change during maintenanceand evolution in the long term. TD has been extensively studied in the pastdecade, and numerous open source software (OSS) projects were used to explorespecific aspects of TD and validate various approaches for TD management (TDM).However, there still lacks a comprehensive understanding on the practice of TDMin OSS development, which penetrates the OSS community's perception of the TDconcept and how TD is managed in OSS development. To this end, we conducted anempirical study on the whole GitHub to explore the adoption and execution ofTDM based on issues in OSS projects. We collected 35,278 issues labeled as TD(TD issues) distributed over 3,598 repositories in total from the issuetracking system of GitHub between 2009 and 2020. The findings are that: (1) theOSS community is embracing the TD concept; (2) the analysis of TD instancesshows that TD may affect both internal and external quality of softwaresystems; (3) only one TD issue was identified in 31.1% of the repositories andall TD issues were identified by only one developer in 69.0% of therepositories; (4) TDM was ignored in 27.3% of the repositories after TD issueswere identified; and (5) among the repositories with TD labels, 32.9% haveabandoned TDM while only 8.2% adopt TDM as a consistent practice. Thesefindings provide valuable insights for practitioners in TDM and promisingresearch directions for further investigation.

Technical Debt Management in OSS Projects: An Empirical Study on GitHub