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SourceForge Acquires Ohloh

Posted about 1 month ago by Jason Allen

Today SourceForge has acquired Ohloh. We at Ohloh are pretty awed and excited at the opportunity (and challenges) ahead. I plan on blogging more deeply over the next few weeks but I wanted to give you some background on why this makes ... [More] sense.

Most developers know that SourceForge is primarily a 'forge' (duh!) - providing open source developers free tools and services to help them succeed. However, for many less-tech savvy people, SourceForge is actually thought of as an open source directory. As a result, SourceForge has found itself in the middle of a lot of software-related activity, from downloading to source code management (and almost everything in between).

The service we've built at Ohloh has focused primarily on making sense of these types of activity. This has allowed us to gain insight into broad trends going on in technology. We are able to detect what software platforms, languages and licenses are gaining ground - from a "production" (ie: development) side, as well as "consuming" (ie: users). As a result, we've built a service to help companies gain insight and build strategies based on these combined open source metrics.

So, tying it together, the goal of the acquisition is to leverage Ohloh's software development analytics to improve SourceForge's insights about the open source development community and help SourceForge provide more relevant advertising.

As you see, Ohloh's services will continue to improve and expand - and gain a lot more exposure by being part of the SourceForge brand. We've had a good opportunity to get to know the SourceForge team during the acquisition process and we're thrilled at the chance to work with them. [Less]

Java/J2EE Expert Needed For A Short Chat

Posted 2 months ago by Jason Allen

The good folks behind this website are in somewhat of a pickle. We need to get a J2EE expert (well, experienced person)'s professional advice.

Can you help? Get in touch w/ us:

IRC: irc.freenode.net in the #ohloh ... [More] channel.
GTalk/Jabber: jasonallen@gmail.com
Mail: jason@ohloh.net

What do you get out of it? Hmm... beyond satisfaction for a job well done? Lemme think. Probably a few kudos, maybe a t-shirt... dunno yet. At the risk of repeating myself - definitely some beer whenever we meet ;-).

-jay [Less]

Unexpected Outage

Posted 2 months ago by Jason Allen

Our website suffered unplanned downtime from 1am to 10am this morning (PDT). The web growth we've seen lately came back to haunt us: our servers drew too much power and caused a circuit breaker to blow. We've reconfigured our power circuits to ... [More] address this appropriately.

Hardware failure aside, the real embarrassment for Ohloh is how long it took for us to respond - it was unacceptable. While our site is currently monitored, none of us caught the alerts at 1am. The SMS/emails didn't wake us up (as they have in the past). We clearly need a better system.

My first step is to find a better web monitoring service - hopefully with one that has some type of escalation procedure. Ideally I'd like a service that starts by sending email/SMS but then escalates to calling alternative phone numbers until someone responds. I'd welcome any suggestions below (or at jason@ohloh.net if you prefer).

Our sincerest apologies. The beer's on us next time we meet.

-jay [Less]

Research: Effects of Gender Socialization on Females in Open Source

Posted 4 months ago by Jason Allen

Consider helping out on this interesting research topic by filling out a short questionnaire.

Announcing Bazaar Support Beta

Posted 5 months ago by Robin Luckey

We're pleased to announce that Ohloh now supports Bazaar repository tracking.

Kudos are due to Michael Adam for his effort in writing much of the new code for this feature, and also to Jelmer Vernooij for lending his expertise in solving ... [More] various problems.

If you discover any unexpected results, please don't hesitate to contact us in our forums.

Source code for the Ohloh source control management library can be found at The Chaw.

Thanks to all of our Ohloh supporters and contributors,

Robin [Less]

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