Project Name: BitWarden
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: Bitwise
What is the purpose of the project:
It is a password manager.
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website?
Rather easy, but needed to go to github and pick a repository, in our case we did clients repo.
Contributing instructions: Here
URL for the code repository: BitWarden Client
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker
Mailing list: Mailing list
Chat channel: Developer Chat
Other communication channels: Forums
License: GPL, Bitwarden License Agreement
Is it OSI approved license: Yes, the GNU General Public License version 3 is OSI approved.
__Programming Language(s):__Typescript, HTML, Javascript, Rust, SCSS, MDX
URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions
Are the contributing instructions clear? Yes, very clear
URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: None
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
URL for instructions for how to install development environment: Client Getting Started
Are these instructions clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow?
Yes. In addition, they listed multiple resources to help if you get stuck while following the setup instructions
Number of contributors: 329 total contributors
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
- kspearrin (7194 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- Hinton (991 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- joseph-flinn (720 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: 14,241 commits
Latest commit add bit-section component to SharedModule #8095
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: willmartian
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what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) Type other: Add bit-section to web's SharedModule
Issues
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how many open issues are there: 476 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: 1 hour ago as of 13:24 Feb 26
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how many closed issues are there: 2802 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
- when was the issue reported: 7 hours ago as of 13:25 Feb 26
- when was the issue closed: 5 hours ago as of 13:25 Feb 26
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__how active is the discussion on the issues:__not active - 2 people
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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: yes - good first issue
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how many of such issues are there? 6 open issues, 20 closed
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Some of them do look beginner friendly (one is just a typo fix)
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): none
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how many of such issues are there? 0
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look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? n/a
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Pull requests
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how many open pull requests are there: 222 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: 37 minutes ago as of 13:30 Feb 26
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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: June 3, 2020
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how many closed pull requests are there: 4,519 closed PRs
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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: 0 users (it was all automated devops bots)
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when was the pull request made: 1 hour ago as of 13:33 Feb 26
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when was the pull request closed: 1 hour ago as of 13:33 Feb 26
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Not always. There is a lot of conversation but most of it is automated (bots, GH actions, etc.)
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environment for this project. Complete the following for each member:
Name: Alex
Operating system: MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it)
How long did the whole process take?
Name: Brandon
Operating system:
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it)
How long did the whole process take?
Name: Sam
Operating system: MacOS Monterey 12.3.1
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it)
How long did the whole process take?
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? It is friendly, has clear instructions.
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? Yes, maintainers do respond helpfully to questions that arises in issues when there are questions.
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)? Not sure about friendly but mostly very straightforward or objective regarding issues and solutions in the forum.
Do pull requests get reviewed? Pull requests are often reviewed automatically with bots and GitHub Actions. Some of them are reviewed manually by a contributor locally. Overall, there is some sort of a review system whether it is automated or by an actual contributor.
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? Not explicitly. One maintainer said, “Looks good. Was able to test locally and the code change is pretty straightforward” which was positive but not much else can be found in pull requests.
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? I think there are some special skills required in order to contribute to certain features of the project. BitWarden is a password manager so there is a security aspect to it that might be needed in order to contribute.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? There aren’t any special hardware or software requirements other than being able to install node.js.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?