Project Name: Lichess
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: Lichess
What is the purpose of the project: To provide users with a free open-source chess server.
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? The website was tucked behind a small link to the source code at the very bottom of the page. It's actually pretty hard to find because all of the details to contribute is very hidden.
Contributing instructions: Here
URL for the code repository: Code repository
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker
Mailing list: None/Could not find
Chat channel: Chat channel
Other communication channels: discord
License: License
Is it OSI approved license: Yes
Programming Language(s): Scala
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, it's very detailed.
URL for instructions for how to install development environment: here
Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes, even includes a video.
Number of contributors: 401 contributors
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
- [Ornicar] (47,230 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [Niklasf] (3,027 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [benediktwerner] (927 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: 57,675 commits
Latest commit show fide federation flags on study chapter player bars
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: ornicar
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what type of work was commited? implementation of new feature
Issues
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how many open issues are there: 907 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: 5 hours ago
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how many closed issues are there: 7,799 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: 1 person
- when was the issue reported: yesterday
- when was the issue closed: yesterday
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how active is the discussion on the issues: Some are fairly active, while some do not have any discussion
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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
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how many of such issues are there? 13 open issues, 334 closed
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Yes, they are mostly minor fixes and some are also tagged "no scala"
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): No
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how many of such issues are there? N/A
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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: 17 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: 4 days ago
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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: Feb 28, 2022
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how many closed pull requests are there: 5,774
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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: 1 user
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when was the pull request made: 20 hours ago
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when was the pull request closed: 11 hours ago
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Yes
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member:
Name: Alessandro
Operating system: macOS
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it) Yes, but it took a little longer because mac was not officially supported and Docker needed to be used
How long did the whole process take? 5 minutes
Name: Mathew
Operating system: Windows 11
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? Less than 10 minutes
Name: Leanne
Operating system: Windows 10
Was the installation successful? (if not, explain what went wrong and what you did to try to remedy it) No, couldn't get commands for Docker setup to work. Tried WSL setup instead but also ran into problems
How long did the whole process take? 10+ minutes
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?
It's fairly beginner-friendly. They give explicit and easy instructions to set up the development environment. The only difficulty is actually finding the contributing page on the website.
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?
The maintainers are reachable through the discord server and are quick to respond to new issues and pull requests.
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)?
The community is friendly and they respond well to questions. However, if something were to go wrong, there isn't Code of Conduct that makes it clear how they handle conflicts.
Do pull requests get reviewed?
Pull requests get reviewed quickly and frequently.
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?
Yes they do.
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
Knowledge of scala, everything else is fairly standard.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
It seems to work best with Linux, but they provide other options for Windows and MacOS. There are some hardware requirements but they're trivial.