Personally I prefer the grey ones, since the strong colours of the others are likely to clash with third party websites.

You're right, it does make sense to do this, unfortunately, there is no standard way across all open source projects of recording this information and thus no obvious algorithm for extracting the information from the logs.

ohloh licence detection is mindless, it doesn't understand multiple-licensing. I'd check the more detailed results at: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/tikiwiki/analyses/latest and add an explanatory ... [More] note somewhere a the bottom of the project description. [Less]

The unhelpful answer: what are you doing with a It's binary, read-only file in your version control then? The easy way to fix this is so that only versioned stuff is in your version control system. ... [More] Pull the rest in at compile/run time The helpful answer: this is a known problem. It also applies in spades to ./configure files in lots of C/POSIX projects and ant/xml files in lots of java projects. [Less]

Here is a list of packages I needed to install on hardy heron to run compile ohcount from version control: libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev libruby1.8-extras rubygems ruby-pkg-tools ... [More] svn-buildpackage Some other packages may have already been install from other stuff i was doing and some packages were pulled in by these, so it's not a complete list. The "-dev" endings are important, and you'll get obscure error messages if you don't install them... cheers stuart [Less]

Jason Allen: You mention that Markdown is available (but not being used) in the forums. I completely agree with that that it's not being used, but suspect that it's because people don't know about it. ... [More] There is no hint / link on the "new post" or "edit post" pages as to how to use it. The text explaining it is below the text entry box (and completely off my screen) when I reply to a post. There is no preview button in the forums (which encourages people to experiment once they have worked out that markup is possible). Yes I know that posts can be edited. The layout of the articles page is better (help beside the text entry box), but until just now I'd not realised that articles and forums had different layout... This is all with firefox 3.0b5 (hardy) cheers stuart [Less]

It seems to me that there are a range of interesting possibilities for ranking projects that are being overlooked. The criteria for "interesting" here is (a) useful (b) showing off data that ohloh has ... [More] that isn't widely known. My suggestions for how to order projects include: number of committers in the last month; number of new committers in the last month combined kudos of committers average kudos of committers increase in kudos of committers in the last month oldest projects newest projects number of lifetime committers completeness of ohloh entry and newness (i.e. list only projects with complete ohloh entries, by newness, encouraging developers to fully complete their projects ohloh entry) While many of these look expensive to calculate (and are), they could easily be cached for hours or days, since these aren't (or shouldn't be) changing very fast. [Less]

I've added what seems to be the right URL, we'll see whether it works

A little bit of reflection suggests that this can be done by using relative URLs rather than absolute URLs in the widgets. If the "Ohloh" widget ditched: <div class='inset'> ... [More] <h4>Ohloh</h4> <ul> <li> <a href='http://www.ohloh.net/about/us'>About</a> </li> <li> ... And used: <div class='inset'> <h4>Ohloh</h4> <ul> <li> <a href='/about/us'>About</a> </li> <li> ... Wouldn't that have the desired effect? Without a transport (http or https) it defaults to the current one. [Less]

Sourceforge have just moved on this, and seem to have done it pretty comprehensively for their web front-end. http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/OpenID However, you still need a local account ... [More] and username/password for accessing the version control repositories. [Less]