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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name: Open Food Facts

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: Open Food Facts

What is the purpose of the project: The purpose is to provide information on food facts in the form of a database

How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? Very Easy because it is on the websites main page

Contributing instructions: Main page

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker

Mailing list: Mailing list

Chat channel: Slack channel

Other communication channels: Forum page

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

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes it is

Programming Language(s): Perl, HTML/CSS, JS, Shell, Python

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: instructions.

Are these instructions clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? It was very easy to follow

URL for instructions for how to install development environment: development enviroment

Are these instruction clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes they specify in detail how to install dev environment depending on system.

Number of contributors: 173 contributors

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

  1. [teolemon] (19750 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [stephanegigandet] (6766 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [aleene] (2931 commits) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 33361 commits

Latest commit 3/2/24

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: moon-rabbitOFF

  • what type of work was commited? German language diction fix

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 1424 Open Issues

    • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

    • how many users discuss the issue: 3 people

    • when was the issue reported: 3/1/24

  • how many closed issues are there: 2013 closed issues

    • url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
    • how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
    • when was the issue reported: 2/28/24
    • when was the issue closed: 2/29/24

  • 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: Yes

    • how many of such issues are there? 54 issues

    • look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? They do seem beginner friendly, I think it takes a bit of research

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

    • how many of such issues are there? 53

    • look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? I think I could, but I would need to put in the work.

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 98 pull requests

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 6255

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

    • how many users discussed the pull request: 2

    • when was the pull request made: 03/01/24

    • when was the pull request closed: 3/2/24

  • do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? for the ones they do respond to, they are quick to respond, but they are selective in what they select

Development Environment

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

Name: Terrance Chen

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? 1 hour because of docker

Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors? I think it is very friendly, as it has a lot of issues that are marked easy and it welcomes contributer

Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? For the most part, but sometimes they dont respond

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

Do pull requests get reviewed? Yes they get reviewed

Do maintainers thank people for their contributions? Doesn't seem like it

Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they? I think you need to know how to program in Perl which isn't as common as other languages.