Posted
21 days
ago
by
Robin Luckey
Beginning Monday, December 7 and continuing through Wednesday, December 9, Ohloh will be operating in a read-only mode while we perform some major system upgrades.
During this time, you will be unable to log in to Ohloh. All project data and
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forum activity will be frozen throughout the maintenance period. Jabber integration and new software uploads will be unavailable.
Software downloads and general web site browsing will continue to function normally.
If you need technical assistance during this time, please send us email at info@ohloh.net. We may not be able to address your problems until the maintenance work is completed on Wednesday.
Thanks for your patience and your support. We are very excited about the upgrades to our system, and look forward to the improved service it will enable.
Thanks,
The Ohloh Team [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
Andy Verprauskus
Ohloh is migrating to a new datacenter over the next few weeks. During the migration, we expect some impact on the website:
Project updates might be delayed.
We might be slow when responding to support requests, e.g. questions about why
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a project report is delayed or different than what's expected.
The website will be read-only near the end of the migration. We'll do this when we synchronize the information stored in our current Postgres database with the new datacenter. During this period, logins will be disallowed and the Ohloh API will be disabled. We hope to keep this portion of the migration to less than 2 days. Everything about the site that doesn't require login, browsing project information, developer contributions, etc., should be available during this period.
A major benefit to being purchased by SourceForge, now Geeknet, is access to a well-funded hardware budget and an experienced operations team. After the migration, Ohloh should be able to analyze more open source projects and update your projects more often. [Less]
Posted
7 months
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
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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]
Posted
8 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
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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]
Posted
8 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
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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]
Posted
10 months
ago
by
Jason Allen
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Posted
11 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
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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]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
Robin Luckey
We're pleased to announce that project tracking for Mercurial repositories is now available in a limited beta trial.
We invite you to submit small Mercurial repositories to Ohloh, and to please contact us with any problems you
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encounter.
Keep in mind the following:
There's no support for branching yet. For now, we process only the default branch.
Please be kind. If your project seems to not be processing properly, drop us a line and help us investigate.
Additionally, Ohloh's source control management library is now available to the open source community under the GPL. You can find the source code online at The Chaw, and also at GitHub.
The Chaw is a new source code hosting, wiki, and ticket tracking site powered by CakePHP. It will be the new home for the Ohloh SCM library.
We welcome community contributions to help improve the Ohloh SCM library, and look forward to supporting more source control systems in the future! [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
Jason Allen
We have always felt that Ohloh indexes the most important open source projects. Recognizing that "most important" is a subjective qualifier, we recently decided to alter our policy to simply index all open source projects. To achieve this, we've
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deployed a crawler to fetch the "very long tail" of less-visible open source projects.
Our crawler works in tandem with the existing openly-editable project wiki. The crawler recognizes that human edits are most important. It never overwrites anyone's edits. It only fills in gaps of missing information. It is also remembers what it has crawled, and keeps these facts up-to-date. Should anyone correct the information provided by the crawler, it will cease to update that information and preserve the manual changes.
So far we've indexed hundreds of thousands of projects from major forges. We believe this will make Ohloh a more valuable tool in discovering and evaluating open source choices. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Jason Allen
We've got 2 exciting announcements regarding Google Code and Ohloh.
Ohloh Gadgets
Firstly, as announced on Google Code's Blog, you can now embed Gadgets in your Google Code Wiki - and, more specifically, Ohloh Widgets. Ohloh Widgets
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are a great way to enhance your project community. Here's some gadget examples for CakePHP:
Development Stats
Community
Code Calculator
We even have some gadgets to enhance your own developer profile (here's an example of Linus Torvalds):
How to add your own gadgets
Find or Add your Ohloh project page. Then, follow the "Widgets" link in the "General" sidebar section. From there you can pick which gadget you'd like.
Google Code indexed on Ohloh.
Secondly, we're happy to announce a long overdue change to Ohloh's project coverage. We're enhancing our community's contributions with an automated crawler to help keep Ohloh up-to-date with the world's open source projects. We've naturally kicked off this effort by indexing Google Code's extensive list of open source projects.
Our indexer works in tandem with our community - and only serves to augment the community's input - not replace it. Feel free to contact us if you'd like more info. [Less]