Cappuccino

Very large, active development team

Over the past twelve months, 33 developers contributed new code to Cappuccino. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.  

For this measurement, Ohloh considers only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 142 developers have contributed.

Increasing Y-O-Y development activity

Over the last twelve months, Cappuccino has seen a substantial increase in activity. This may be a sign that interest in this project is rising, and that the open source community has embraced this project.

Ohloh makes this determination by comparing the total number of commits made by all developers during the most recent twelve months with the same figure for the prior twelve months. The number of developers and total lines of code are not considered.

Very well-commented source code

Cappuccino is written mostly in Objective-J.

Across all Objective-J projects on Ohloh, 5.0% of all source code lines are comments. For Cappuccino, this figure is 21.2%.

This very impressive number of comments puts Cappuccino among the top 10% of all Objective-J projects on Ohloh.

A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.

Well-established codebase

The first lines of source code were added to Cappuccino in 2008. If this older project has had recent activity, then this project likely is consistently delivering value, and attracts sustained effort from the community.

A longer source control history in conjunction with recent activity such as with this project, may indicate that this code base and community have enough value to hold contributors' interest for a long time. It may also indicate a mature and relatively bug-free code base, and can be a sign of an organized, dedicated development team.

Note: The source code for Cappuccino might actually be older than the source control history can reveal. Many new projects begin by incorporating a large amount of source code from existing, older projects. You might be able to tell whether this is the case by looking for a rapid rise in the amount of code early in the project's history.