Posts by Stuart Yeates

Topic: Track contributions from non-committers

The problem with a scheme like this is that every project has a different format for these and it would be really hard to do things automatically.

Topic: Edit History as RSS Feed

It's tempting to suggest that project RSS feeds could be generated through the API with a little XSLT, but I won't look into that if there are performance issues...

Topic: Edit History as RSS Feed

"Changed bestanalysisid to 221575" by "The Ohloh Hamster" means that the ohloh system (i.e. the hamster) re-analysed the code and the new code has id 221575. There is no particular significance to the id, except that it's an index into the underlying database tables.

Topic: Synapse code history is wrong

The more I think about this problem (and it's an issue for my greenstone project too), the more i think there might be a hack that users can do. Basically the user sets up a mirror of the repo immediately before the move and adds it as a new enlistment. Once it's processed it's deleted (it's only history, so it never needs updating).

Do you have a feel for whether that you work Robin? or would it break other stuff?

Topic: No Commits Since 3/26 & 4/30

It looks like the update failed, you'll have to get someone from ohloh to look at it:

ttp://www.ohloh.net/projects/OpenGroupware/enlistments

Topic: Rules for analysing SVN repos

When you merge the branch back into the trunk, that will be seen by ohloh, but the individual commits on the branch will not be seen by ohloh.

There are a whole range of changes which people seem to be screaming for louder than this, so don't count on it.

But then I'm not an ohloh insider, so they might be about to release it.

Topic: User email (hashed)

What is needed for RDF is an SHA1 hash, as described in the FOAF standard. Using anything else is a complete nightmare interoperability-wise.

Topic: redundant tags

ohloh tags are an example of a Folksonomy which has deep problems, but is participatory in the same way that open source is.

What you are describing is a Controlled vocabulary which also have deep issues, but require specific in-depth training.

Controlled vocabularies are formal systems and can be shown to be incomplete in the Turing sense. Folksonomies are interpretative systems.

Topic: Password Field in New Entlistment Page

The best option here is to find a public repository that doesn't require a username and password. Most open source repositories have anon public repositories that anyone can access, does yours not?

Topic: New I USE IT widgets

Very nice, thanks!