Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos <fd252@nau.edu> Decision on your manuscript #EMSE-D-22-00286R1 - [EMID:674c345572f54197] 1 message Empirical Software Engineering Editorial Office <em@editorialmanager.com> Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 7:08 PM Reply-To: Empirical Software Engineering Editorial Office <lanie.mabanan@springer.com> To: Fabio Marcos De Abreu Santos <fd252@nau.edu> CC: tzimmer@microsoft.com, robert.feldt@chalmers.se, "Joseph Vargovich" joseph_vargovich@nau.edu, "Bianca Trinkenreich" bianca_trinkenreich@nau.edu, "Italo Santos" italo_santos@nau.edu, "Jacob Penney" jacob_penney@nau.edu, "Ricardo Britto" ricardo.britto@ericsson.com, "João Felipe Pimentel" joaofelipenp@gmail.com;jpimentel@ic.uff.br , "Igor Wiese" igor.wiese@gmail.com, "Igor Steinmacher" igor.steinmacher@nau.edu;igorsteinmacher@gmail.com, "Anita Sarma" anita.sarma@oregonstate.edu, "Marco Aurélio Gerosa" gerosa@ime.usp.br;profgerosa@gmail.com;marco.gerosa@nau.edu;marcoaureliogerosa@gmail.com Dear Mr De Abreu Santos, We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript, "Tag that issue: Applying API-domain labels in issue tracking systems", has been accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering. You will be contacted by Author Services in due course with a link to complete the grant of rights. Please note that you will receive your proofs after the publishing agreement has been received through our system. Please remember to quote the manuscript number, EMSE-D-22-00286R1, whenever inquiring about your manuscript. With best regards, Lanie Mabanan JEO Assistant COMMENTS TO AUTHORS Thanks for addressing the reviewers' comments. I'm happy to recommend acceptance. Congratulations! Reviewer 2: Thanks to the authors for clarifying the question from previous round of reviewing. I do not have any other comment regarding the paper. Reviewer 3: Thanks for addressing and answering my comments. I find the current version of the paper ready for publication, from my point of view. In particular, I checked that the reproduction package is now available, and its contents are sound and useful. I also think the clarifications included in the paper, and in particular the additions and modifications to the description of the threats to validity, the description of the contributors assessment, and the description of the methods help to better understand the study, and to make it more precise. I agree with all the fixes and modifications done to address my comments. Please note that this journal is a Transformative Journal (TJ). Authors may publish their research with us through the traditional subscription access route or make their paper immediately open access through payment of an article-processing charge (APC). Authors will not be required to make a final decision about access to their article until it has been accepted. <b>Authors may need to take specific actions to achieve compliance with funder and institutional open access mandates.</b> If your research is supported by a funder that requires immediate open access (e.g. according to Plan S principles) then you should select the gold OA route, and we will direct you to the compliant route where possible. For authors selecting the subscription publication route our standard licensing terms will need to be accepted, including our self-archiving policies. Those standard licensing terms will supersede any other terms that the author or any third party may assert apply to any version of the manuscript. <a href= https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/funding/policy-compliance-faqs> Find out more about compliance</a>