+1 for IRC. I even use Bitlbee to map my IM connections to my IRC client. In general I have the feeling that IRC is more etsablished and accepted in the OS world. Just my .02.

Hi Andy! As we are on it: It'd be nice if one could remove a project from the stack and add it to the ignore list at the same time. Usually if you don't use a project actively anymore, you don't want ... [More] it to show up in the recommended list directly afterwards, too. In addtion I found it quite hard to clean up my stack. It has growen quite large and I wanted to remove quite some items I don't use anymore or only use very rarely. In the current state the site will always "reload" (since the lists disappear and reappear again) and I need to scroll down a lot. I'd rather like to have checkboxes there to remove a couple of projects in one request. This would also be suitable for ignoring multiple projects at once in the stack builder. In addition this should save you some resources, if people don't send 1 whole request for each project they want to add/remove/ignore. Cheers! Toby [Less]

Hi Andy! It seems to actually work quite fine, thanks! :) However, making the whole list disappear completely and make them pop in again hardly such a short time later hurts a bit in the eyes. Maybe ... [More] it would be a better idea just to replace the affected entry with the status indicator. Same applies to the "current stack" list on the right. This one completly disappears, too. At least that is the behavior I experienced when hitting a "No I don't" button. I had no chance to try the other button, yet. ;) HTH! Cheers! Toby [Less]

Hi! Several people already confirmed to me, that their stackbuilder does not work properly. Which button ever you choose for a project ('Yes, I use it' or 'No, I don't use it'), the status-indicator ... [More] occurs and stays there endlessly. A reload of the page after several minutes shows that the desired operation did not take effect. For debugging: I'm on "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080211 Firefox/2.0.0.12" on a Gentoo Linux. TIA for looking into this! Cheers! Toby [Less]

If you create or contribute to an open source project you also do this in and for the public and therefore it gains you publicity. Also if it is just a side-effect, you still provide publically ... [More] available information. Google processes some of the information you put into public and Ohloh does so, too. And of course there are a lot more institutions out there which take information that is publically available on the web and process it in much worse ways than Google or even Ohloh does. So, as said above, it does not really affect me, if Ohloh keeps it like it is or changes it. But I think it does not really affect anyone to have this information on the web. From a pure privacy point of view I agree with you, though. [Less]

Hi Mathias! Well, I see your point. But then you need to argue the same way with Googles page-ranke, for example. Most people don't opt-in for being ranked there. Nevertheless Google indexes their ... [More] page and publishes the page rank. I have to admit that it does not really matter to me, if Ohloh keeps up kudo-ranks for non-registered users. I just posted my first thought on this issue. :) From the marketing point of view, Ohloh can also state "Wanna know your kudo-rank? Just register and see it!", if they stop publishing it for non-registereds. Regards, Toby [Less]

Is a benchmark good, if it only includes programs that explicitly applied to be included?

Having the project logo on a projects site would be nice.

A nice idea would be to offer a "synchronize entlistment" button, to allow users the manual affection of the synchronization. Of course, it should'nt be possible to run a synchronization always. I ... [More] would more expect that after a certain ammount of time (maybe 7 days?), the button becomes enabled and allows a user to accelerate the synchronization, like we can now do by emailing you guys, if we fell our repositories aren't updated often enought. Btw. could you please sync #6078 and #3315? :) TIA! [Less]

Hi guys! In the language top-lists, a list for "changed LOC" and "changed comments" would be nice. A lot of commits does not necessarily mean that a developer is most active, depending on commit ... [More] habits. Changed lines of code can also be missleading, e.g. when generated test cases are used and things, but having both stats in place should give a good impression. The other top-list i'd like to see ("changed comments") is meant in the sense of "inline documentation lines changed" and is to honor documentation work, too. Beside that, I wonder what happened to a feature I suggested some time ago: The including of pure documentation files in the documentation statistics. AFAIR e.g. plain text files, html documentation, doc book docs and stuff are not respected by the doc stats, yet. This is a really important indicator, I think. Has this been discussed? TIA! Toby [Less]