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* Describe the history and philosophy of an open source project
* Choose between the various open source licenses understanding the implications for users, developers, and the software community in general
* Use the communication modes particular to the open source world through participation in such things as GitHub, mailing listsSlack, wikis, etc.
* Use the tools of open source development, for example: distributed revision control; documentation tools; automated build and test systems; debuggers; source code utilities; tracking systems; on-line resources, etc.
* Work with a pre-existing large source code base
==Major Project==
This is a project course, and the majority of each student’s mark will come from work done on a real development project. The primary goal of this project is to get students involved in the open source development community and its codebases. Through this experience students will learn about the processes, tools, and practices involved in developing software as part of a large open source community. Students will also have the opportunity to contribute their own code to real-world software projects, thereby gaining important experience.
===Philosophy===
Many of the practices inherent in open source development will seem to go against the structures often set in place for similar course work. For example, students are typically forbidden to collaborate with peers, to copy from the web, etc. However, these rules must be re-evaluated in the context of proper and pragmatic open source development practices.
First, consider the typical rules around cheating and plagiarism. In this assignmentcourse, students are encouraged to work within the set of best practices natural to open source development. Open source developers do not write from scratch what already exists and is freely available for use. Students should be thinking in terms of code reuse. It is acceptable for students to use code from other open source projects, so long as the license is amenable to the use.
Second, consider the typical restrictions on peer-collaboration. In this project students are encouraged to work together, to help one another, to look at each other's code, etc. Open source collaboration is about leveraging the collective knowledge of a community to help solve the problems of the individual.
Third, consider the sharp dividing line between student projects in most programming courses. For the most part, students are evaluated on their ability to do a particular project or to solve a particular problem on their own. The outcome is measured against peer outcomes. However, in this course students are not in competition with their peers; rather, they are all working on one large project (ie.eg., Mozilla) with many sub-projects within it. As a result, there is no clean line to divide one student’s work from another, or even student work from that of the open source community. This means that collaboration between students and even other members of the open source community is acceptable practice.
To summarize, students should:
* Give others encouragement and credit when they offer help
* Use existing open source code whenever possible
* Be open to helping others and to being helped
==Intellectual Property==
Detailed grading information will be discussed later in the term. Below is a breakdown of how students will be graded, and [http://blog.humphd.org/vocamus-680/?p=680 this blog post] gives more details about the rationale:
* '''7560%''' - Project Deliverables (e.g., code, documentsPull Requests, documentation), marked in terms of quality, quantity, process, etc.** '''2510%''' - [[OSD & DPS909 Fall 2020 - Release 0.1 |Release0.1]] due Fri, Sept 25** '''2520%''' - [[OSD & DPS909 Fall 2020 - Release 0.2 |Release0.2]] due Sat, Oct 31** '''2515%''' - [[OSD & DPS909 Fall 2020 - Release 0.3|Release 0.3 ]] due Fri, Nov 20** '''15%''' - [[OSD & DPS909 Fall 2020 - Release 0.4|Release0.4]] due Fri, Dec 11* '''2540%''' - Labs: There will be marked Done/Not Done (i.e.approximately 10 labs, no subjective grading will be applied)each worth 4%. Students are expected to must satisfactorily complete all course project deliverables and labs in order to pass the course.
==Resources==
* [[DPS909 & OSD600 Winter 2018Fall 2020]]- Weekly Course Notes and Links* [httphttps://zenitseneca-open-source.senecacslack.oncom Seneca Open Source Slack] - Our main communication platform is Slack. You can sign-up with your @myseneca.caemail address.* [https://~christelescope.tyler/planetcdot.systems/ Telescope Open Source@Seneca Planet]* [[DPS909 & OSD600 Winter 2018 Bug List]Blog]- All student open source blogs are aggregated here in our custom blogging software
== Archives ==
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