Something I'd like to see in the Ohloh API is some simple way to push a project release for download. That way I can write a simple script that'll package up a release, sign it, push it up to the ... [More] release server, and create a journal entry w/ news pts (unless release uploads already do something like this...). [Less]

For a solution... offering a method of claiming ownership of a commit would be nice... if the comitter was a member of Ohloh, then a notification of sorts would be in order. Also... if a project ... [More] enabled some option for the commit, a regex could be used on commit messages, perhaps w/ a list of 'common' regexes and a field for custom... [Less]

Re the GIT comment.... git does have an 'author' of a commit built in. So in GIT there's the 'committer' and (optionally different) 'author'.

Contributors in SVN that were attributed in the comment due to lack of commit-permission. Due to SVN's model, the 'committer' is the contributor, which may (and in some cases usually) is not the case ... [More] , since they 'merely' incorporated the changes/patch that someone else did. [Less]