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"Duplicate projects"

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4075 http://www.ohloh.net/projects/102

Dannii Willis

about 6 years ago

Thanks curiousdanni,

I've deleted 102 since it appeared to be less popular and its code enlistment was out of date. I've consolidated the stacks, etc.. into 4075.

Jason Allen

about 6 years ago

Also Rhythmbox seems to be duplicated: see http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4116 and http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4453

Łukasz Jernaś

about 6 years ago

Thanks for findings this. I've deleted 4116, which looked to be more complete, and moved its ratings and stacks over to project 4453.

Robin Luckey

about 6 years ago

Aptana is also duplicated: * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4725 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4726 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4727

Regards

Patrick ALLAERT

about 6 years ago

Also nanoblogger is here four times: * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5366 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5365 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5364 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5363

Michal Čihař

about 6 years ago

geez - I'm getting the hint that we really need to catch this at project creation time. I'll clean em up tomorrow. Thanks!

Jason Allen

about 6 years ago

I've cleaned up the recent duplicates (Apatana and NanoBlogger).

In both cases, the duplicates were created by the same person in a very short period of time -- which makes me think that perhaps the people who created these projects were simply having some trouble editing the project info, and perhaps weren't even aware they were creating duplicates as they edited.

Is there something confusing about the project creation process that we should fix? Of course it's all totally obvious to us, but we're the nerds who wrote the mess, so how does it look to our users? Any feedback?

Robin Luckey

about 6 years ago

I didn't see any difference between Apatana projects. Maybe a very common case in Web Applications: the guy who created the project clicked "submit", but didn't receive a response (timeout, page loading cancelled,...) althought the request may be received by the server. Users often click on the submit button again thinking it was not successful. Maybe inserting and managing an hidden big random number in the form could help detecting duplicate submits ?

Patrick ALLAERT

about 6 years ago

Mercurial: 4974, 5255

The latter duplicate was created by osde.info.

Piet Delport

about 6 years ago

Robin Luckey: For that problem, it would probably be a very good idea to implement duplicate form submission detection, either on the server side, or even simply on the client side by disabling the submit button on post.

There's less you can do about independent duplicates, but detecting identical names and inserting an additional confirmation would probably help a lot already (such as with the Mercurial duplication).

Piet Delport

about 6 years ago

@Robin: To be honest I have no idea why nanoblogger was created so many times. I sometimes have similar problems with ohloh, especially when server response is bad. Maybe some ajax code timeouts in this case and resubmits the data? I didn't investigate the details, but when ohloh is heavy loaded, my posts are sometimes submitted several times.

Michal Čihař

about 6 years ago

Octave is duplicated: * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/144 * http://www.ohloh.net/projects/145

Is this due to the fact that Octave's CVS repository is difficult to import???

Emilien

almost 6 years ago

Thanks Emilien!

I've merged these Octave projects. The dup project problem is really annoying. What's the best solution? Simply restricting the project names to be unique is not necessarily enough - in this case they had different names. I wonder if we should also use the home page url to determine similarity. Any other suggestions?

Jason Allen

almost 6 years ago

I wouldn't go for name or home page duplicates except at creation time, and even then only to let the user click a "yes I'm sure" button.

Just a thought ...

Hagen Möbius

almost 6 years ago

OpenH323 is also multi-duplicated

Bertrand Croq

almost 6 years ago

Hi Bertrand - thanks for the notice. Something strange must have happened. It looked like you created the project 12 times (you didn't , did you?). Anyway - i undid all save one.

Jason Allen

almost 6 years ago

Aren't you supposed to be on vacation? *cough*

Edit: Sorry, it's 6am, I'm fiddling with design elements on my blog and listening to Queen ... kinda bored ya see. Incidentally, your formatting markup is starting to get irritating, since I'm used to using a couple of Asterixs, uh, asterisks, to delimit third person actions ... which looks completely wrong on here. How to put in a couple of splats? Backslash?

*Testing*?

Cracking :D