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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name:
GitLab Community Edition

Finding info about contributing on the website.

Project website: Website

What is the purpose of the project: GitLab Community Edition (CE) is an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Self-host GitLab CE on your own servers, in a container, or on a cloud provider.

How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? Very easy

Contributing instructions: Here

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue Tracker

Mailing list: N/A

Chat channel: Chat Chanel

Other communication channels:

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

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes Programming Language(s): Ruby, 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? Yes, they are very straightforward. Furthermore, on the same page, there are instructions for alternative development environments

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: xxx contributors

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

  1. [Suzanne Selhorn] (124 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [Sascha Eggenberger] (76 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [Jonas Larsen] (69 commits) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 387,313 commits

Latest commit

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: Marius Bobin

  • what type of work was commited? An update to an object schema in the database

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 66,800 (insert link here)

    • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

    • how many users discuss the issue: 1 person

    • when was the issue reported: 2 minutes ago

  • how many closed issues are there: 123,000 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
    • when was the issue closed: 5 hours ago

  • how active is the discussion on the issues:

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

    • how many of such issues are there? 443 open, 677 closed

    • look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? they do! mostly documentation changes or refactoring variable names

  • are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific):

    • how many of such issues are there? 13,865
    • look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix?
      • Definitely

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 1,800 pull requests

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 118,000 pull requests

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

    • how many users discussed the pull request: 4 users

    • when was the pull request made: 1 hour ago

    • when was the pull request closed: 1 hour ago

  • do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? very very quickly, often within the hour

Development Environment

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

Name: Harry Minsky

Operating system: OSX

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

Yes, both via gitpod and via the local development instance

How long did the whole process take? Approximately 30 minutes

Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?

Very friendly

Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?

Yes, and there is a very active community involved in responding to questions

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

Yes, quite freindly!

Do pull requests get reviewed?

Yes, though it seems that reviewers may need to be flagged directly sometimes

Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?

Yes

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

None, though for significant code contributions javascript(particularly vue.js) and ruby experience are necessary

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

None, thanks to the gitpod implementation