Practical Course: Open Source Lab

Important Information

• Pre-meeting: 18:00 on Wednesday 7.7.2021 via BBB
  • https://bbb.rbg.tum.de/chr-hf8-hu7-d2d  (session will be recorded)
  • Slides
  • Recording: BBB
• Registration: 15.07.–20.07.2021 using the matching system
• Duration: 1 Oct 2021 to 31 Mar 2022 with:
  • Weekly theory lectures at the beginning.
  • Later biweekly meetings to check student's practical progress.
  • Time slots will be decided in cooperation with the participants.
  • All lectures and meetings will be held online (virtual) using BBB, attendance is mandatory!
• Module ID: IN0012 / IN2106
• ECTS: 10
• Capacity: 10 students
• Moodle: https://www.moodle.tum.de/course/view.php?id=68995

Lectures

• BBB: https://bbb.rbg.tum.de/chr-hf8-hu7-d2d
• 21.10.2021 at 14:00
  • Introduction: 01_lecture_introduction.pdf
  • Git Basics: 02_lecture_git.pdf
  • Recording: BBB
• 28.10.2021 at 14:00
  • Source Code Hosting: 03_source_code_hosting.pdf
  • Licenses: 04_lecture_licenses.pdf
  • Recording: BBB
• 04.11.2021 at 14:00
  • Utilities: 05_lecture_utilities.pdf
  • CI/CD: 06_lecture_CI_CD.pdf
  • Recording: BBB
• 11.11.2021 at 14:00 First presentation session

Course Description

This practical course is designed as an introduction into the field of Open Source developement. After a handful of introductory lectures, every student will work on their own or in a small team on one or multiple pull requests for Open Source projects.

Such Open Source projects could be BBB, GNU or TUM-dev. Interaction with the Open Source community is encouraged.

The following topics will be covered:

• Git basics
• GitHub, GitLab, ...
• Licenses
• Utilities like Static Analyzer, Linter, etc.
• CI/CD

Learning outcomes / study goals

At the end of the module students have acquired basics and advanced knowledge in working with Open Source projects and contributing to them. The students have understood how to start their own Open Source projects and select a proper License. Furthermore, the students have understood which tools like static analysis, continuous integration and linter they could use to validate their contribution before creating an actual pull request.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures with hands-on sessions in the first phase, working on their own projets with biweekly intermediate presentations in the second phase.

Contacts

• Prof. Jörg Ott
• Fabian Sauter
• Christian Menges

Contact email address: opensourcelab[at]cm.in.tum.de (Please refrain from sending us messages for late registrations. All places are taken and there is a long waiting list.)