Ethics approval was granted because the participants were volunteers. However, regarding their conclusions:
"In summary, our proposed approach uses available unsupervised lexicons to assess developers’ sentiment polarities from social media posts, providing a non-intrusive and easy method to gather such information. This approach can be used for various possibilities, including creating a dashboard that shows useful information on the emotional status of individual software team members. "
The proponents of surveillance come in all shapes and colors.
Ethics approval was granted because the participants were volunteers. However, regarding their conclusions:
"In summary, our proposed approach uses available unsupervised lexicons to assess developers’ sentiment polarities from social media posts, providing a non-intrusive and easy method to gather such information. This approach can be used for various possibilities, including creating a dashboard that shows useful information on the emotional status of individual software team members. "
The proponents of surveillance come in all shapes and colors.