about 1 year ago
I see this is a fairly common question, but I do not see what could be wrong. I recently registered, and I am trying to add a project (Gentoo Linux), with "lavajoe" as committer. my commits are under this name on, e.g., http://cia.vc/stats/author/lavajoe. Do I need to do something else to get my username recognised by ohloh?
Thanks, Joe
about 1 year ago
Hi Joe,
The cia site seems to be unresponsive for me right now, so I can't see details of your contribution to figure out why you are not on Ohloh. However, there are a few things to point out:
It looks like the Ohloh report hasn't been updated for several months. There have been a lot of repositories added to and removed from our project report, and it needs a little maintenance. I've cleaned up and rescheduled some of our failed downloads, and a new report should be ready in a few days.
Also, we do not have any of the old CVS history on our report; only the Subversion history. The CVS history is very long and large, and downloading the whole history from the CVS history is simply to slow to ever complete. It will require a lot of manual work to get this into our system -- we'll probably have to create a local mirror of the repository and then run our import scripts from that local mirror. So if your commit are in the CVS history, it might be quite some time before those are visible on Ohloh.
Check back in a few days for the updated Subversion report. Let me know if I can answer any other questions,
Robin
about 1 year ago
Hi Robin, and thanks for the reply.
I also am having trouble just now loading the cia site - bummer (this is the first time I've ever seen it 'down'). I suspect it is only a temporary issue.
I've been a developer at Gentoo since May 31, this year, so perhaps it not surprizing you do not have my commits, if it's been several months. Also, Gentoo does have Subversion repositories, but these are for side projects. The mainline commit tree (the "portage" tree) is CVS. So if you do not look at the CVS tree, you will not be seeing the actual development work at Gentoo. Are you sure you have not been getting CVS commits in the past? It looks like you have quite a few Gentoo developers listed, and most of them would be using the CVS tree.
-Joe
about 1 year ago
Hi, any updates on this problem? Other gentoo developers are also wondering if ohloh will start tracking Gentoo Linux again. You mentioned that the problem is the CVS repo. Let me know if support from the Gentoo Project would help, and I'll ping them.
-Joe
about 1 year ago
Hi Joe,
The problem for us is the gentoo-x86 CVS module. It has about half a million commits in it, and each commit is taking us several minutes to an hour to download. At that pace, we'll probably never get the whole thing.
We've found very few repositories that are too big for Ohloh to swallow, and most of them are CVS-hosted operating system kernels. :-)
In the past we've tried some tricks like using cvsup to create local mirrors of giant repositories like this, but we haven't had much luck with it.
There's a lot of whiteboarding going on these days to try to improve our overall reporting performance, and we may be able to come up with some tricks to help us get at least partial reports for giant repositories like this -- for instance, we could process the commit log even though we don't (yet) have the source code itself.
about 1 year ago
Robin Luckey: I'm not sure why you never got back to me previously - specifically my email about rsyncing the entire CVS tree over to you.
"rsync anoncvs.gentoo.org::" and take your pick of the rsync modules (CVS, SVN, Git).
You will have to create your own minimal CVSROOT directory. We do not distribute some of our internal CVS repos (the infrastructure one for example), and there are a couple of files in the web tree that are deliberately excluded from the mirror.
'cvs history' will NOT work. Don't bother with it.
You have my email address from last time, but I'm going to be away May 5-21 and 99.9% offline.
about 1 year ago
rsyncing the cvs repo right now... will keep u posted.
about 1 year ago
Great, thanks!
about 1 year ago
Yeah, thank you guys for taking care of this problem. I was wondering why ohloh can't recognize me too.
about 1 year ago
Any new status on this? Thanks, Joe
about 1 year ago
Status update: I rsynced the cvs repo successfully. I swapped out the gentoo-x86 cvs enlistment for the local mirror instead and it appears to be pulling code from it successfully (over 500k commits to go...wow).
I'll check it again in the morning.
about 1 year ago
Hey, Jason, it's been a month since last update. Any new progress? Thanks!