In the following section you should only enter the information that you found on the project website. Some of the answers will be impossible to find, others may be very hard to find. Do not google for answers.
Project website: Website
What is the purpose of the project: The purpose of CbioPortal is to provide easy access to cancer genomics datasets along with providing tools to visualize and analyze them.
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? It was very easy to find information about contributing on the Github repository.
Contributing instructions: Here
URL for the code repository: Code repository
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker
Mailing list: Mailing list
Chat channel: Chat channel
Other communication channels:
License: License
Is it OSI approved license: Yes, it is OSI approved Programming Language(s): Java, HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, Shell, Perl, and Dockerfile.
URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions
Are the contributing instructions clear?
Yes they are.
URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: Community Guidelines
URL for instructions for users to download and install the package: here.
Are these instructions clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes, they are clear and seem easy to follow.
URL for instructions for how to install development environment: here
Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes.
Number of contributors: 109 contributors
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
- [jjgao] (3,173 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [n1zea144] (2,168 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [inodb] (2,075 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: 20,327 commits
Latest commit
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: inodb
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what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) It was an addition to the documentation. Issues
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how many open issues are there: 128 Open Issues
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url for the last issue created: Last issue created
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how many users discuss the issue: 1 person
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when was the issue reported: March 6th, 2024.
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how many closed issues are there: 5,783 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
- when was the issue reported: February 29th, 2024
- when was the issue closed: March 1st, 2024
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how active is the discussion on the issues: Discussion in the issues seems very active and positive.
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example of a lot of good discussion: Good discussion
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example of an issue that does not have much discussion: Not much discussion
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are there issues marked "good for newbies", "beginner" or some other indicators that imply that they are good for beginner contributors:
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how many of such issues are there? 14 issues
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Yes, some of them do look approachable and beginner friendly.
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): Yes
- how many of such issues are there? There are currently 2 issues with the tag "documentation"
- look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? Yes, I do think I could submit a fix.
Pull requests
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how many open pull requests are there: 17 pull requests
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url for the last pull request created: Last Pull Request created
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when was the last pull request made: Last Pull Request created
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url for the oldest pull request created: Oldest Pull Request created
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when was the oldest pull request made: September 14th, 2023
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how many closed pull requests are there: 4,022
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url for the last pull request closed: Last Pull Request closed
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how many users discussed the pull request: 2 users
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when was the pull request made:
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when was the pull request closed: March 7th, 2024
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Yes, they do.
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member: Cole Wasserman
Name:
Operating system: MacOS
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it) The installation was succesful.
How long did the whole process take? About 10 minutes.
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? This project seems pretty friendly for beginner contributions because there is a lot of issues tagged as being beginner-friendly. There also seems to be a lot of good feedback and active and productive discussion from team members.
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?
Yes, they do and they are very friendly.
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)? Yes.
Do pull requests get reviewed? Yes, pull requests get reviewed in a timely manner.
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? The maintainers seem to generally thank people for their contributions.
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? Yes, having familiarity with the listed programming langauges as well as some knowledge of data analysis seems important.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? None listed.