User:Dletarte

Name: Dominic Letarte

Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Temple University

Page: https://cis.temple.edu/user/756

GitHub: domincl

Stage 1a - FOSS Anatomy

SUGAR LABS

1. Roles for students: Writing API documentation, Testing and potentially fixing bug. All roles allows students to get used to work with code they did write themselves and to work in bigger systems. Writing API documentation can be part of fulfilling writing intensive requirements.
2. Repository
3. Latest commit: April 30, 2019

commit 525bf888c06136dc24481e9c1d5bc71a75252422 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Date:   Wed May 1 13:01:43 2019 +1000
 
   Docs - Fedora 30
   
   Thomas Gilliard says the instructions are missing, need to be updated,
   and too complicated.
   
   http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-April/056784.html

Sahana Eden Project

Information management system for disaster and humanitarian aid management

1. • Commonalities: the roles for involvement are similar as for Sugar but the processes are not as strictly defined. Sugar have policies and plans for releases while Eden have an issue tracker where discussion happen and code changes are proposed via pull requests.
2. Repository
   • Latest commit: May 2, 2019

commit 008faeebda5cbca3a547379853c20471618bd577 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Dominic König <dominic@nursix.org>
Date:   Thu May 2 21:25:52 2019 +0200

   BR: option to show end-date of case activities

Stage 1b - Intro to FOSS - Github

• As of May 20, 2019 11:48AM Github is reporting 27,833 repositories for the term "education".
• 3,456 of theses repos use the JavaScript language.
• The more recently updated was vincentrodriguez/signals-visualisation (Updated a minute ago).
• The least recently updated was drongous/ems (Updated on Jun 4, 2008).
• The more active repo (more stars) is freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
  • 303k stars.
  • 227 open issues and 13334 closed issues
  • Insight tab show graph of acitivity in the repo.
  • Commit tab in insight show a graph with the number of commit by week for the last year. For freeCodeCamp the number of commit have increased from less than 40 a week to more than 100 a week starting in last October.

• As of May 20, 2019 12:07PM Github is reporting 506 repositories for the term "humanitarian".
• HTBox/crisischeckin
  • have 178 stars.
  • use C#
  • Last updated on Oct 24, 2018

• The term "disaster management" have 473 repository results.

Stage 1b - Intro to FOSS - OpenHub

• For the search term "education" approximatively 2270 projects were found ( 227 pages of 10 projects).
• I recognize Moodle, Wireshark and Groovy in the list of most active projects for the search term "education".
• KDE Education
  • All repos are git repos hosted on anongit.kde.org
  • 10 similars projects are listed. (KStars, Step,..., KPercentage)
  • The similar project page show an icon for each project with name, activity level, language and License.
• "humanitarian" search returns approximatively 30 projects
• "disaster management" search returns approximatively 30 projects
• "Activity Not Available" icon is showned because of problems with the code locations or other problems blocking Open Hub from collecting and analyzing code. Developer need to update project code locations in openhub to resolv this.
• Organizations page shown statistics about organizations. The list of most actives orgs, the list of newest orgs and the list of orgs by commit volume.
• The search results show a list of Organizations. The organisation OpenRMS have 46 projects.
• OpenHub reports for OpenMRS Core project that most code locations as "Downloading source code history (Failed about 1 month ago.)" No information is available in OpenHub about last commit.
• In Github the Latest commit for openmrs/openmrs-core is one day ago.
• Openhub do not have access to the code locations of openmrs-core, recent activity is not available to be analysed by OpenHub
• It is possible to find different kind of information at different places.

Stage 1b - Intro to FOSS - OpenHub

Evaluation Factor	Level (0-2)	Evaluation Data
Licensing	2	Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
Language	2	Java (96%) and SQL (3%)
Level of Activity	2	Constant level of activity
Number of Contributors	2	322 contributors. Two author (wluyima and dkayiwa) are merging contribution on master from substancials pull requests from community.
Product Size	2	223.3MB (Repository Size extension ) 780213 lines of code (GitHub Gloc extension)
Issue Tracker	2	1277 Issues ready for work; 14141 Closed issues; Ben Wolfe created issue TRUNK-324 "Go through the TODO items code and create tickets out of them" on 2008-05-21 18:59:09 GMT+0000. Checked TRUNK-4655, RA-1387, TRUNK-324, STAND-54, TRUNK-5409. Many were created years ago and contains many sub-task being worked on. Success is not immediate as contributors are beginners doing many mistakes but receiving support.
New Contributor	2	instructions to download and install the development environment https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Step+by+Step+Installation+for+Developers communication mechanisms [1] discussion platform? If so, are there recent posts and responses? https://talk.openmrs.org/c/dev Last message 1h ago. Is there Web presence? https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Developer+Guide
Community Norms	2	Code of Conduct is derived from the one from Ubuntu community. More supportive for beginners. Community is overtly polite compare to other open source community.
User Base	2	World wide user base https://atlas.openmrs.org/? Are there instructions for clients to download and set up the software? Are there instructions for how to use the software?
Total Score