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Project Evaluation Activity

Project Name: Raylib

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: Provide a simple and easy to use library to enjoy videogames programming.

How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? There is a link to different contribution options in the about page. They are mostly financial platforms, but there is a link to Github too.

Contributing instructions: Here

URL for the code repository: Code repository

Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker

Mailing list: n/a

Chat channel: Chat channel

Other communication channels: Link for Twitch, Reddit, X, YouTube, etc.

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

License: License

Is it OSI approved license: Yes

Programming Language(s): C for contributing directly, but it has bindings to 60+ languages to make example games.

URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions

Are the contributing instructions clear? Yes

URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: No code of conduct listed

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

Number of contributors: 548 contributors

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

  1. [raysan5] (4732 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  2. [a3f] (146 commits) - Their Latest Commit
  3. [victorfisac] (74 commits) - Their Latest Commit

Number of commits: 7192 commits

Latest commit

  • link to the commit: Latest commit

  • who made that commit: cabarget

  • what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) fix an issue with build paths

Issues

  • how many open issues are there: 22 Open Issues

  • url for the last issue created: Last issue created

  • how many users discuss the issue: 1 person

  • when was the issue reported: March 2, 2024

  • how many closed issues are there: 1619 closed issues

    • url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
    • how many users discussed the issue: 2 people
    • when was the issue reported: Feb 29, 2024
    • when was the issue closed: Feb 29, 2024

  • how active is the discussion on the issues: It's active, I haven't seen an open issue that haven't received comments from the maintainers.

    • example of a lot of good discussion: Good discussion

    • example of an issue that does not have much discussion: Not much discussion. Even this example has some sort of discussion, the maintainer has responded with an explanation.

  • are there issues marked "good for newbies", "beginner" or some other indicators that imply that they are good for beginner contributors: No

    • how many of such issues are there? 0 issues

    • look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly? n/a

  • are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): no

    • how many of such issues are there? 0

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

Pull requests

  • how many open pull requests are there: 8 pull requests

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

  • when was the last pull request made: Feb 29, 2024

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

  • when was the oldest pull request made: Nov 25, 2022

  • how many closed pull requests are there: 1911

    • 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

    • when was the pull request closed: Feb 29, 2024

  • 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: Ahmet Ilten

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? 10 minutes

Summary assesment

How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?

The project requires some time to get yourself acquainted with the codebase if you're going to make code contributions. There aren't many "beginner friendly" issues listed. However, the project philosophy is to keep it simple and easy to use. So it might not take too long to get yourself acquainted with the code.

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, although they have a direct approach.

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?

You should be fairly comfortable coding in C.

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

Nope, it works on all major (and some minor) operating systems.