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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name: Zulip

Finding info about contributing on the website.

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: Organized collaborative chat (improved slack)

How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? Website has a link to a community chat which has some basic guidlines for contributing

Contributing instructions: Join community chat / also a seperate website for how to contribute

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Not on main website

Mailing list: [Mailing list](insert link here)

Chat channel: Chat channel

Other communication channels: N/A

Finding info at the project repository and bug/issue tracker.

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes

Programming Language(s): Python, Javascript

URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions

Are the contributing instructions clear? Yes

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? Relatively

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: 914

Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:

  1. [timabbott] (10,311) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [andersk] (4,031) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [showell] (2,353) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 56,769 commits

Latest commit

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: timabbott

  • what type of work was commited? Fixed a bug (incorrect fields set)

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 1709 Open Issues

    • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

    • how many users discuss the issue: 1 person

    • when was the issue reported: 18h ago

  • how many closed issues are there: 7,052

    • url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
    • how many users discussed the issue: 3 people
    • when was the issue reported: 1 day ago
    • when was the issue closed: 20h ago

  • how active is the discussion on the issues: Pretty active

  • are there issues marked "good for newbies", "beginner" or some other indicators that imply that they are good for beginner contributors: Yes

    • how many of such issues are there? xxx 21

    • look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Yes

  • are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): No

    • how many of such issues are there? N/A

    • look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? N/A

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 772 pull requests

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 19,547

    • url for the last pull request closed: Last Pull Request closed

    • how many users discussed the pull request: 3 users

    • when was the pull request made: 6h ago

    • when was the pull request closed: 1h ago

  • do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Decent

Development Environment

Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member:

Name: Isaiah Levy

Operating system: Mac OS

Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it) Yes

How long did the whole process take? 20 min

Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? Quite friendly - there are several issues tagged as a "good first issue" and there is extensive documentation on how to contribute.

Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? The community as a whole is pretty active, the maintainers

Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)? Yes

Do pull requests get reviewed? Yes

Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? Sometimes (Im sure they do more in the chat)

Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? Wide veriety of issues to contribute to (no 1 specific skill required)

Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? Need at least 2 GB of RAM