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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name: Calibre


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: Free, easy to use e-book manager

How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? Easy. There is a "Get Involved" page on the site with further links

Contributing instructions: Here

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker

Mailing list: None

Chat channel: Development forum

Other communication channels:


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

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes (GNU General Public License v3.0)

Programming Language(s): Python (79.1%), C (17.3%), C++ (2.8%)

URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions

Are the contributing instructions clear? Yes

URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: None/could not find

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: here

Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes

Number of contributors: 299 contributors

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

  1. [kovidgoyal] (37,116 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [user-none] (1,914 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [cbhaley] (882 commits) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 48,591 commits

Latest commit

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: kovidgoyal

  • what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) Bug/quality of life fix

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 112 Open Issues

    • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

    • how many users discuss the issue: 2 people

    • when was the issue reported: 2024-12-18

  • how many closed issues are there: Couldn't find; closed issues seem to be removed

    • url for the last issue closed: N/A
    • how many users discussed the issue: N/A
    • when was the issue reported: N/A
    • when was the issue closed: N/A
  • how active is the discussion on the issues: Fairly active, although it seems like most times only the maintainer responds

  • are there issues marked "good for newbies", "beginner" or some other indicators that imply that they are good for beginner contributors: No

    • how many of such issues are there?

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

  • 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?

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

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 5 pull requests

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 2,190

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

    • how many users discussed the pull request: 1 user

    • when was the pull request made: 2 days ago

    • when was the pull request closed: Yesterday

  • do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Yes, usually within a day or two it seems

Development Environment

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

Name: Leanne

Operating system: Windows

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? 5 minutes


Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?

It seems a little difficult to know where to start for contributions, and the bug reporting forum seems a little outdated/hard to navigate, but otherwise it seems like an easy project to understand.

Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?

Yes, although they seem to deal with most issues themselves.

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

Yes, but there's no code of conduct.

Do pull requests get reviewed?

Yes, quickly

Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?

No

Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?

No

Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?

Python 3.8