CiviCRM Project
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The Project
According to the CiviCRM site: "CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters"
Evaluation Factors
Evaluation Factor | Level (0-2) |
Evaluation Data |
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Licensing | 2 | Different parts of CiviCRM are under different Open-Source Licenses, incuding MIT and AGPL 3.0. |
Language | ??? | CiviCRM can be found here, and includes PHP, Shell, JavaScript, Python, Perl, etc. and the core is Primarily PHP(78%) and Smarty(19.3%) |
Level of Activity | 2 | CiviCRM has had commits every week in the last year [1] |
Number of Contributors | 2 | CiviCRM has at least 10 people associated with the main project, and many, many more who have contributed |
Product Size | 1-2 | CiviCRM has thousands of lines of code. |
Issue Tracker | 2 | The CiviCRM issue tracker can be found here large issues may also be handled by a specified dev team. There are some 1,600 open issues and 19,000 closed. |
New Contributor | 2 | CiviCRM has new involvement instructions here, an overview for new developers here, and a dev guide here. |
Community Norms | 2 | CiviCRM has a page on values and vision here |
User Base | 2 | CiviCRM has an active and large user base, claiming partnership with over 10,000 Non-profit organizations[2]. Q&A is here (questions being asked and answered within the last few hours) and |
Total Score | 15-18 | CiviCRM is a well-supported and documented project with a professional development team, and financial incentives for active and helpful developers. |