Project Name:
Langchain
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: Langchain
What is the purpose of the project: Provide tools and framework to use LLMs
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? I had to click around but they have a page for it.
Contributing instructions: Contributing
URL for the code repository: Code repository
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker Mailing list: [Mailing list](insert link here)
Chat channel: Chat channel
Other communication channels:
License: MIT
Is it OSI approved license: Yes
Programming Language(s): Python or JS/TS
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, simple pip installation
URL for instructions for how to install development environment: here
Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? There is a lot of information and things to do, but seems straightforward
Number of contributors: 2390 contributors
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
All on March 1, 2024
- [hwchase17] (1474 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [baskaryan] (1292 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [efriis] (451 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: 7842 commits
Latest commit March 2, 2024
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: hwchase17
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what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) More Documentation
Issues
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how many open issues are there: 1329 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 people
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when was the issue reported: 4 hours ago
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how many closed issues are there: 4851 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
- when was the issue reported: 2 days ago
- when was the issue closed: 20 hours ago
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how active is the discussion on the issues:
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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 a lot of issues are closed when the person figures it out themselves
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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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Yes
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how many of such issues are there? 7 issues
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Yes, but not the most simple, it still seems to require some effort
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific):
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how many of such issues are there? 129
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look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? Might be tough, a lot of open issues are fixed already and wating for merges
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Pull requests
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how many open pull requests are there: 479 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
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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: October 16, 2022
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how many closed pull requests are there: 9923
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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
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when was the pull request made: 5 hours ago
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when was the pull request closed: 5 hours ago
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Yes they do, but there seems to be no discussion in the pull requests
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member:
Name: Henry
Operating system: MacOS
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? 10+ minutes. there are a lot of things to keep track off, such as making tests and different dependencies for different projects.
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? Not the most friendly for beginners
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? No, they are very conscise and matter-of-fact
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)? They are very professional, not very friendly
Do pull requests get reviewed? Yes
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? No
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? Yes, it emphasises unit tests and integration tests Otherwise, no, just familiarity with the project
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? you need to use poetry for your dependencies