Description: Cataloging and Lending App Project for CS 3240 Software Engineering at the University of Virginia.
Please use a virtual environment. After cloning, run:
- cd .\Textbook-Lending-Web-App\
- py -m venv .venv
- .venv\Scripts\activate (Windows) OR source .venv/bin/activate (MacOS)
- pip install -r requirements.txt
- python3 manage.py runserver
Note that you automatically connect to the live database, even when running locally. The main branch has Amazon S3 configured, which cannot be accessed locally. Profile Pictures and Item Pictures will not appear locally.
- Official Role: Scrum Master for a team of 5 undergraduate students.
- Compiled sprint reports and presented our progress to the TA.
- Led team meetings, communication, efforts, testing schemes, and development progress.
- Shared key personal insights about the entire development progress in the Scrum Master Report.
- Developer contributions: login page, anonymous users page, integration of marketplace and home page, major UI improvements across the app, debugging various features.
| Library / Framework | License | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Django | BSD-3 | Link |
| django-allauth | MIT | Link |
| gunicorn | MIT | Link |
| psycopg2-binary | LGPL-3.0 | Link |
| whitenoise | MIT | Link |
| Pillow | HPND | Link |
| django-storages | BSD-3-Clause | Link |
| boto3 | Apache-2.0 | Link |
| social-auth-app-django | BSD-3-Clause | Link |
| celery | BSD-3-Clause | Link |
| djangorestframework | BSD-3-Clause | Link |
Given that our project is a Django-based cataloging and lending application, and considering the licenses of the dependencies (primarily permissive licenses like MIT, BSD, and Apache 2.0), releasing our project under the MIT License would be a suitable choice. The MIT License is widely used, simple, and permissive, allowing others to use, modify, and distribute our code with minimal restrictions.