User:Hshahria

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Hossain Shahriar - Introduction

Dr. Hossain Shahriar is an Associate Professor of Information Technology, College of Computing, at Kennesaw State University.

College of Computing hosts three departments and over 40 faculty members, more than 3,000 full time students and over six degree programs including undergraduate, graduate.

Dr. Shahriar's primary focus at CCSE is Software Security, the intersection of software engineering and networking security. As a faculty, his responsibility includes teaching courses from BSIT and MSIT degree programs, around healthcare, cybersecurity and web design.

Dr. Shahriar's scholarly interests span application development, quality assurance, risk assessment, intrusion detection development, education technologies in android software development.

In his spare time, which is mostly non-existent, Dr. Shahriar likes to do sports and exercise activities including soccer and cycling.

Stage 1 (PartA):Intro to FOSS Project Anatomy (Activity)-Answers (Sugarlabs)

Contributions -- I think I can contribute as an educator by using sugarlabs for authentic learning of topics related to computer technology.

Among the various roles (educator, designer, developer, translator, public relation), the commonality is each of the member can be part of documentation and textbook replacement team. The dissimilarities depend on the role. For example, developer can break and test the code, whereas public relation is supposed to promote the project across various members within the community.

Tracker -- To submit a bug, I think we visit the project https://github.com/sugarlabs, then select "Issues" tab at https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues and select "New Issues". I can see several types of ticket: defect, enhancement and task. Each ticket includes information of reproducing a bug, expected result and actual results, workaround information. Some other information include ticket#, OS, component name, severity level, etc. though, these information may be unspecified by a reporter.

Repository -- I think the last commit was done 23 days ago, which should be April 30th (see https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/489974f4243eb3a18c0bea07812c436ed8aa7d5c)

Release cycle -- I think each release cycle addresses a number of issues such as all module releases are available by scheduled dates, perform automatic and manual QA and resolve issues with relevant module owners. However, each roadmap update includes planned schedules of release dates, freeze points, list of modules and external dependencies, reference to all the tickets considered for the release, and references to the new feature proposals.

Stage 1 (PartA):Intro to FOSS Project Anatomy (Activity)-Answers (SahanaEden)

Community -- I don't see much commonality across roles, but overlapping exists for few roles such as developer and tester, who are both using the same software, one for extending features, another to test features. Each contributor is offering something distinct. For example, GIS specialists can share data, designers can assist in improving the look and usage of the website, developers can add or modify features, testers can assist in quality assurance.

The main difference that I perceive between sugarlabs and sahana project is the application domain and data usage. The sugarlabs is intended to replicate a desktop computer where data and program is standalone; the sahan eden project appears to be distributed in nature where users from multiple locations are able to share and access data for emergency management. The sugarlabs did not use GIS data, but Sahana Eden project require GIS data to serve the area under emergency.

Tracker -- The Sahana Eden bug tracker can be found here. Place your answers to the following on your wiki page. Sahana Eden project shows a list of available report on the top page (http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/report). However, it was not readily available for Sualrlabs project, in fact I could not find an easy way to generate the report from the top page (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Submit_Bugs/Problems). After clicking the Active Tickets link, I found a number of ticket types such as defect/bug, documentation, enhancement, and task.

Repository -- From https://github.com/sahana/eden, the recent update was done just an hour ago, so I presume it should be May 23, 2018.

Release cycle -- The roadmap and release cycle planned for May 2012 highlighted key features required (e.g., messaging, S3, resource tagging) and status (e.g., done already or not, who did it), the list of stable modules and their owners, internationalization effort (E.g., localization packages for multipel languages).

Stage 1 (PartB): FOSS Field Trip (Activity)

Part 1 - GitHub

I found 20,295 project repositories related to education. Clicking on the first project was nodejs, and the graph/commit shows total number of commit done over various weeks. I can see that total 5 commits done over 4 different weeks (1 week had two commits, for the rest 3 weeks, it was one commit per week).

When typing "humanitarian" in the search box, it led to 393 results. The HTBox/Crisischeckin was last updated on Apr 22, 2017.

The disaster management category has 227 repositories.

Part 2 - OpenHub

There are 2251 education projects in OpenHub. Yes, it appears a number of repositories are located at Github, for example, git://anongit.kde.org/kiten master

There are 10 projects that appeared to be similar to KDE Education.

At the bottom, OpenHub provides, list of projects that are used by users with KDE Education. The results appeared none at this time. It requires more user information to determine.

There are 21 projects on humanity and 30 projects on disaster management. I believe no activity information available due to lack of source code availability or having the source to external website (e.g., sourceforge).

Under organization, I can see # of commit done by various organization (public, not for profit) such as Gnome foundation, KDE and OpenStack. For example,, the most active organization was Gnome Foundation, followed by Nuxeo and OpenStack.

OpenMRS Core was last committed two months ago, I presume the date would be March 23, 2018. However, Github shows that OpenMRS core was updated just a day ago. The reason of the difference in date could be the set of contributors of the repository between Github and OpenHub are different. The copy of source may be different.

The benefit of using both Github and OpenHub will be maximizing information about an active project and looking for the latest copy from contributors. The Github may not provide some statistics (e.g., LOC, average commit per week on graphical visulalization) that OpenHub provides. The main disadvantage could be the information need to be analyzed and based on the project goal a decision has to be made. The bottom line both sites provide different kind of information.

Stage 1 (PartB): Project Evaluation (Activity)

Evaluation of the OpenMRS project

Evaluation Factor Level(0-2) Evaluation Data Licensing 2 points Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0

Language 2 points Java

Level of Activity 2 points >10 commits per quarter avg.

Number of Contributors 2 points 303 contributors

Product Size 1 points 222.42MB is huge for most students having no experience with large scale software development

Issue Tracker 2 points most issues are closed, while some are open, newly accepted, and in progress

New Contributor 2 points good documentation on how to install, contribute to code, wiki, forum and talk support

Community Norms 2 points I found details on code of conduct such as be respectful, considerate, and collaborative, see https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Code+of+Conduct. Regarding conversation available at https://talk.openmrs.org/, I found no examples of inappropriate or rude communication among developers or community members, examples include discussion on collaboration for development, fixing error during compilation, and announcing a new feature.

User Base 1 point I did not see exactly how many users currently using, being an open source EHR, and having seen so many commits, I believe it must be used by many users, it has good instructions on how to install and deploy.However, I could not find how to use the software after installation in the https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core.

Total Score 16 points