Project Name: FreeCodeCamp
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: The purpose of the project is to help people learn to code.
How easy was it to find information about contributing on the website? Incredibly easy. It is linked in the dropdown menu of the website.
Contributing instructions: Here
URL for the code repository: Code repository
Bug/Issue tracker link: Bug/Issue tracker
Mailing list: N/A
Chat channel: Discord channel
Other communication channels: There is a forum here
License: License
Is it OSI approved license: Yes.
Programming Language(s): TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, Dockerfile, EJS, and HTML.
URL for contributing instructions: Contributing instructions
Are the contributing instructions clear? The instructions are quite detailed in the sense that they have contribution guidelines split up by type, so there is a section for coding contributions and another for translations.
URL for code of conduct / community norms / community guildelines: Community Guidelines
URL for instructions for users to download and install the package: It is a website. No download is required.
Are these instructions clear? Do you think they would be easy to follow? Yes, since it is a website and not an installable.
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: 5,338 contributors
Usernames of three contributors with largest number of commits; for each of them list the link to their latest commit:
- [ojeytonwilliams] (1749 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [raisedadead] (1640 commits) - Their Latest Commit
- [camperbot] (1533 commits) - Their Latest Commit
Number of commits: The top 100 contributors collectively performed 22,411 commits. In total, there are 5,338 contributors. My estimation for the total number of commits is somewhere above 27,469 commits.
Latest commit
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link to the commit: Latest commit
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who made that commit: ojeytonwilliams
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what type of work was commited? (was it a fix to a bug, implementation of a new feature, ...) They removed some mobile e2e tests.
Issues
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how many open issues are there: 189 Open Issues
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url for the last issue created: Last issue created
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how many users discuss the issue: Nobody has discussed the issue.
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when was the issue reported: 5 hours ago (from Mar 2, 2025 @11:12PM EST)
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how many closed issues are there: 18791 closed issues
- url for the last issue closed: Last issue closed
- how many users discussed the issue: xx people
- when was the issue reported: 2 days ago
- when was the issue closed: 2 days ago
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how active is the discussion on the issues:
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example of a lot of good discussion: Good discussion
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example of an issue that does not have much discussion: Not much discussion
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are there issues marked "good for newbies", "beginner" or some other indicators that imply that they are good for beginner contributors:
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how many of such issues are there? xxx issues
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look at a few of them, do they look beginner friendly?
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are there issues marked "documentation" or some other indicators that imply that they are documentation (user or developer specific): Yes, there is a "first timers only" label
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how many of such issues are there? There are none available under the open issues, but there are 911 closed ones.
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look at a few of them, do you think you could submit a fix? Yes. One example is fixing a typo.
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Pull requests
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how many open pull requests are there: 89 pull requests
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url for the last pull request created: Last Pull Request created
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when was the last pull request made: [Last Pull Request created](3 hours ago)
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url for the oldest pull request created: Oldest Pull Request created
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when was the oldest pull request made: January 11, 2024
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how many closed pull requests are there: 39,190 pull requests
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url for the last pull request closed: Last Pull Request closed
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how many users discussed the pull request: Only the creator of the PR talked about it.
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when was the pull request made: 8 hours ago (from Mar 2, 2025 at 11:18PM EST)
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when was the pull request closed: 8 hours ago
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do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? The maintainers are not particularly quick at responding considering the vast majority of pull requests opened today have not been commented on. At most, it will be a bot thanking the user for trying to contribute.
Each member of your group should attempt to configure the development environemnt for this project. Complete the following for each member:
Name: Jahleel Townsend
Operating system: MacOS Sequoia 15.1
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? Roughly 6 minutes.
How friendly is this project for beginner contributors?
I would say that aside from there being no open issues for beginner contributers and the lack of discussion on issues that were opened today, the project is fairly beginner friendly.
Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues?
At the very least, they do not respond quickly to questions in issues. Most issues have very little discussion.
Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat (for example, IRC or Slack)?
I looked at a couple of discussions in the Discord and some of the conversations seemed tense
Do pull requests get reviewed?
Pull requests do get reviewed pretty frequently. There are many recently closed pull requests.
Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?
Yes, they do thank people for their contributions.
Are there special skills required to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
Considering the scale or complexity of some of the issues I saw in the repository, I would say special skills are not particularly required.
Are there any special hardware/software requirements to be able to contribute to the project? If so, what are they?
If someone is only trying to do a one-time contribution, it is recommended to use a Cloud IDE and in that case, there are no special hardware/software requirements as those will be provided by the Cloud IDE's environment.