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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name: Matplotlib

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: It's a library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

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

Contributing instructions: Here

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker

Mailing list: Users Mailing list, Announcement Mailing list, Development Mailing list

Chat channel: Chat channel

Other communication channels:

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

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes, I think (They have a modified version of the PSF license)

Programming Language(s): Python (92.5%), C++ (5%), etc.

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

URL for instructions for how to install development environment: here

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

Number of contributors: 1,403 contributors

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

  1. [tacaswell] (6,588 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [QuLogic] (5,231 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [anntzer] (4,426 commits) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 49,606 commits

Latest commit

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: timhoffm

  • what type of work was commited? Merging a pull request related to docs

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 1,171 Open Issues

    • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

    • how many users discuss the issue: 1 person

    • when was the issue reported: 9 hours ago

  • how many closed issues are there: 8,918 closed issues

    • url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
    • how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
    • when was the issue reported: 25 hours ago
    • when was the issue closed: 24 hours ago (1 hour after it was opened)

  • 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? 58 issues

    • look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? Kind of, yes (w/ some domain knowledge, yes)

  • 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? 198 issues

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

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 377 pull requests

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

    • when was the last pull request made: Feb 28, 2024, 6:25 PM EST

    • url for the oldest pull request created: Oldest Pull Request created

    • when was the oldest pull request made: MAR 10, 2017, 10:29 PM EST

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 17,347 pull requests

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

    • how many users discussed the pull request: 2 users

    • when was the pull request made: FEB 29, 2024, 9:15 AM EST

    • when was the pull request closed: FEB 29, 2024, 1:49 PM EST

  • do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Yes

Development Environment

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

Name: Shriya Kalakata

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? It actually took me maybe 30mins - 1hr. Although I did spend some time here and there on it over a few weeks bc I thought it wasn't working BUT it was because I just didn't restart my terminal.

Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? It is very friendly

Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? Yes

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

Do pull requests get reviewed? Yes

Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? Yes

Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? Not really but some knowledge of Python and the library itself would be good

Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? No