Hello, Is there any chance that you will make an AI available to access the data
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API to access the data?
over 3 years ago
over 3 years ago
Greetings dfc,
I think it'd be great to do this. I'd love to hear more about what you're thinking of. Specifically:
- What part of a our data are you interested in? The general project information (the name/description, etc..) or rather enlistments, or the lines of code, languages, developer info, etc?
- Are you interested in read/write access? IE: the ability to add or update project information?
- what kind of API would you prefer? A REST api? SOAP?
- what volume of calls/day would you plan on making?
looking forward to hearing from you (or anyone else interested in this too!).
-jay
over 3 years ago
I would also be interested in some sort of API to access the project data. I am currently looking into incorporating this information into our project CruiseControl.NET dashboard. (We're actually getting ready to redesign the dashboard and would really like to include this information as part of the new design.)
I think the information most interesting for us would be the developer info, source code languages, codebase history, and possibly the news section.
It would seem like the safest API to provide would only allow read access. I think allowing write access from outside the main ohloh site would lead to problems in the long run. As far as API technology, I'm not sure what the best option would be, but probably something that is callable from client-side Javascript. Since we use CruiseControl.NET, it doesn't easily provide a way to customize the functionality of the dashbaord, only the look and feel, so we wouldn't really be able to make use of web services, etc.
over 3 years ago
Thanks sdorman,
I've been toying with a feature idea for a while that might be exactly what you're looking for. Let me know if it sounds useful or not.
The idea is that we have a "glorified" badge for a project. Instead of a tiny animated GIF we currently offer, however, we would embed HTML (or XHTML) that contains the summary report information (languages, activity, commenting ratios, etc...). We could offer 2 versions - one self-styled and another totally bare of formatting so that sites could customize the look.
Would you be interested in that?
-jay
over 3 years ago
Jay,
That sounds like it would work for what we want to do. That gives us the flexibility to display the data on the pages that we want and have it conform to the look and feel of the rest of the site. One suggestion would be to allow for different "badges", or at least make them configurable. I could see this being something where we want certain statistics on one page and others somewhere else.
Thanks,
Scott.
over 3 years ago
I second sdorman suggestion, a badge like those currently available from delicious or technorati, would be great.
over 3 years ago
Jay,
Any progress on the updated/glorified badges?
over 3 years ago
hi sdorman. I've started working on it. Took at look at the google widget API but didn't like the terms. I hope to have it some basic ones out this week.
over 3 years ago
Great! Look forward to seeing them and helping to test. You can get an idea of where they would be going by going to
http://build.subtextproject.com/ccnet/server/local/project/SubText-1.9/ViewProjectReport.aspx
Thanks,
Scott.
over 3 years ago
I took the freedom of announcing this thread at Wikimatrix
over 3 years ago
Greetings everyone,
We just enabled an early preview of enhanced ohloh badges. We're keeping it quiet for now so that we can incorporate feedback from people on this thread first. Go ahead and embed them anywhere you like, but understand that it will likely change in the near future. I only enabled one type of badge so far (project languages). To access the badge, follow this url pattern:
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/ANY_ID/widgets
I expect that the current badge might need some html tweaking - let me know.
over 3 years ago
Badge is not working for me... http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3756/badges is a 404
over 3 years ago
doh.... sorry - the url path is not .../badges, but rather .../widgets (i fixed the link above to avoid future confusion).
over 3 years ago
This looks great!
I have included the widget in our web dashboard. You can see it at: http://build.subtextproject.com/ccnet/server/local/project/SubText-1.9/ViewProjectReport.aspx
I'm looking forward to the next widgets that are available.
over 3 years ago
It would be nice to have the title and chart placement as configurable items. Being able to change the title (or even omit it completely) and being able to align the chart either:
top-left, top-right, top-center
or possibly also align it along the left side of the table (like it displays on the main project stats page).
Thanks,
Scott.
over 3 years ago
Sorry...one other thing...
Having the list of Other languages also have some alternate row shading would be good too. For Subtext, we have about 8 languages listed here, and without some sort of shading it can make it hard to follow the line across.
over 3 years ago
Glad to hear it's working!
Here's where I'm at:
Change/Hide/Position Title
Good idea - however I'll delay this feature until we have more widgets first.
Shade 'Other Languages'
Yep - makes a lot of sense. I'll do this sooner since it also does kinda hinder readability.
I'm on a side-project at the moment so I'll only get back to badges in a day or two. Meanwhile - more feedback appreciated. Thanks!
over 3 years ago
Yes, the change/hide/position the title is more on the "nice to have" feature. Even being able to change the placement of the chart graphic is a grey area. Shading the other languages list would be my choice for highest priority as it does affect readability.
A couple of questions have come up from some of the other developers, but I'm not sure if keeping them in this thread is appropriate. I'll post them and can always move them to their own thread afterwards.
- It appears that the .aspx files in our project are being reported as XML files instead.
- Are the other languages listed part of a fixed list? Ohloh reports that we have <1% of PHP, Perl, and Python, when we have none of those.
- We have two repositories enlisted, is it possible to get separate statistics for each one?
over 3 years ago
Any update on widgets? I thought we would see other JSON widgets soon, e.g. the code history graphs or the contributor commit graph as in http://www.ohloh.net/projects/45/analyses/latest/contributors.