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TEAMMATES - Description

What is TeamMates?

TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students. It is provided as a cloud-based service for educators/students and is currently used by hundreds of universities across the world.

How alive is the project?

According to the generated report from the GitHub repository page, considering the period from January 28 of 2020 to February 28 of 2020, TeamMates has 17 merged pull requests and 11 proposed pull requests out of 28 Active Pull Requests. Regarding the number of contributors, 11 developers have worked on those pull requests lately (one-month period, and there are more than 400 direct contributors on the repository.

Source: https://github.com/TEAMMATES/teammates/pulse/monthly

How important is it?

TEAMMATES is used by over 200,000 users from over 1,600 universities from many countries.

What is it good for?

Designed by a team of teachers and students, TEAMMATES provides a powerful peer feedback and peer evaluations mechanism with a very high degree of flexibility.

What are the technologies involved (programming languages, libraries, desktop vs web based, etc.)?

TEAMMATES uses many tools and technologies, which can be contributed by developer roles.

Roles: Web page developer: Works on static web pages, such as those used in the TEAMMATES product web site. Front-end developer: Works on the front-end of the app, i.e. the dynamically-generated user interface. Test developer: Works on automating system tests. Back-end developer: Works on the back-end logic of the app, including data storage. DevOps developer: Works on automations (CI, static analysis, scripting) and operations (logging, monitoring, troubleshooting).

Is the project in a development phase or maintenance/evolution phase?

Maintenance: “We release frequently, in weekly time-boxed iterations. Every week, our product becomes better than the previous week. This means "go back and rewrite from scratch" is only a last resort.”

Are there many issues to fix?

On February 28 of 2020, there are 240 opened issues and 5732 closed issues according to the TeamMates GitHub page.

Source: https://github.com/TEAMMATES/teammates/issues

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