Last April I gave a talk at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit, talking about some interesting stats and metrics from Ohloh about project activity. Not surprisingly, FOSS activity follows the Pareto principle – most of the effort is focused on … Continue reading
Release 18 January 2013
In this release: New Project Activity Icons – see how active a project’s developer community is at a glance. Blog post: http://meta.ohloh.net/2013/01/a-beehive-of-activity/ New Orange-O Ohloh branding for widgets. Example: https://www.ohloh.net/p/firebug/widgets Bug fixes, performance improvements.
Release 3 January 2013
Happy New Year! In this release: Accepted several community pull requests for ohcount – the Ohloh line counter and open source project that parses source files for language line counts. Added .json as an extension mapped to JavaScript language. This … Continue reading
Release 13 December 2012
In this release: New top header for the site, including a link to “Code” – taking you to the front page of Ohloh Code code search. Bug fixes. Performance improvements. NOTE: We’re starting to name releases by their deployment date, … Continue reading
Sprint 46 Deployment (19 November 2012)
In this deployment: Improved Page Titles in search engine search results. Social media “share” buttons on Compare Projects and Tag Search results. New captcha (ReCaptcha) Bug fixes. Performance enhancements.
Adoption Metrics and Ohloh
Got some ideas on adoption metrics? We’d like to know! Comments, please! Continue reading
Redmonk uses Ohloh data to report on centralized vs. decentralized version control usage
Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk posted an interesting blog post recently where he used Ohloh data for predictive analysis of centralized vs. decentralized version control systems (DVCS). His report highlights the aggressive adoption of Git as a key indicator in a … Continue reading
Introducing Ohloh Organizations: A New View On FOSS
Organizations have long been a part of the FOSS landscape. But there has been no consistent, comparable way to roll up project activity to get a view of an entire organization’s impact on FOSS. Until now. Continue reading
Sprints 43-44-45a Deployment (23 October 2012)
In this deployment: Ohloh Organizations feature. Bug fixes. Performance improvements.
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