Project Name: Brave
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 the project is to create a more private workspace without ads and tracking in the form of a browser.
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? It was really easy to find information about contributing on the website.
Contributing instructions: Here
URL for the code repository: Code repository
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker
Mailing list: Could not find
Chat channel: Chat channel
Other communication channels: Twitter
License: Mozilla License
Is it OSI approved license: Yes.
Programming Language(s): Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, Swift, others (to a lesser extent).
URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions
Are the contributing instructions clear? Yes the contributing instructions are clear.
URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: Not found
URL for instructions for users to download and install the package: [here](insert link here).
Are these instructions clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes these instructions are clear and easy to follow.
URL for instructions for how to install development environment: MacOS and Windows
Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes these instructions are clear and easy to follow.
Number of contributors: 210 contributors to brave-core, 93 contributors to brave-browser. (Unsure if possible to find total amount of unique contributors).
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
- [brave-browser-releases] (3606 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [mkarolin] (3180 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [tmancey] (2639 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: xxxx commits
Latest commit The latest commit was made 12 hours ago.
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: bsclifton
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what type of work was commited? Security team review is now required when editing any source code files in the Rewards engine code that perform signing.
Issues
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how many open issues are there: 7035 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: 0 person
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when was the issue reported: around 2 hours ago (2/26/24 11:21 am)
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how many closed issues are there: 26905 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: 1 people
- when was the issue reported: around 6 hours ago (2/26/24 7:22 am)
- when was the issue closed: closed 3 hours ago (2/26/24 10:22 am)
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how active is the discussion on the issues: The discussion on the issues is not super active.
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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? 16 issues
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Some are for exmaple if you are mroe front-end focused one of the issues may be doable
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): Yes there are.
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how many of such issues are there? 24 issues
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look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? Yes some of them seem easy enough to submit a fix.
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Pull requests
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how many open pull requests are there: 222 Open 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](02/26/2024 @ 1:26 PM)
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url for the oldest pull request created: Oldest Open Pull Request created
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when was the oldest pull request made: Apr 27 2021
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how many closed pull requests are there:
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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: 12 hours ago
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when was the pull request closed: 1 hour ago
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? relatively quick
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member:
Name: Rushitha Penikalapati
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 successful.
How long did the whole process take?
Name: Kei Oshima
Operating system: MacOS
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it):
- Yes the instruction for setting up develpement enviroment was clear and concise as I had all therequirment preinstalled
How long did the whole process take?
- About five minutes
Name: Josckar Palomeque-Elias
Operating system: Windows
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it):
- Yes, the instructions were straightforward and I already had most of the requirements installed. The git configuration necessary was simple as well.
How long did the whole process take?
- About 20 minutes.
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?
- I wouldn't say the most freindly as there were not a lot of first time contributor issues avaiable.
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?
- Not really. Often times there were only one contributor or an issue.
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)?
- I could not tell as there weren't a lot of contributors or discussions in issues.
Do pull requests get reviewed?
- Yes pull request get reviewed.
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?
- Some do some don't.
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
- No special skills are required.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
- No special hardware/sfotwarerequirements to be able to contribute to the project.