27 minutes ago
Very nice feature. Is it meant for example to have "Programming stack", "Entertainment stack", "Browsing stack", "Document editing stack" or just "Home" / "Work" stacks?
There is one bug in editing stack name when using Mozilla 1.17.2, namely that backspace does not erase characters, so when entering new name the new stack name overlays old "New Stack 1" name.
about 6 hours ago
I see one issue with this, it would not be documentation for LaTeX packages like http://www.ohloh.net/projects/latex-beamer or http://www.ohloh.net/projects/auctex
about 6 hours ago
However now it says:
http://supertux.lethargik.org/svn/supertux/trunk Subversion Step 1 of 3: Downloading source code history (Failed)
We had some issues with anon svn yesterday but they were quickly fixed, I guess you have to restart your re-download or something.
about 8 hours ago
Ah thanks nice to know.
about 10 hours ago
Excellent to see ohloh rolling out new features.
Also explains some of the features of the XML in the API.
about 18 hours ago
1- Actually, I don't know that we really debated it much; this is the first time it's come up. We can debate it now. :-).
I'm inclined to agree that in the context of a 50-pixel widget with little room to explain things, "total" is probably the expectation.
I don't know whether anyone would have a cow if we switched from "active contributors" to "total contributors" in the widget. We have a lot of widgets in the wild now.
2- The person-years effort estimation is strictly an artifact of COCOMO, which I don't really defend. In my opinion, COCOMO often doesn't correlate with the typical ad-hoc development process of many open source projects (as opposed to corporate waterfall methodologies, for which it was designed). We provide it here because it's a relatively standard way to express the scale of a project to non-technical users.
Ironically, given the source control history, Ohloh could provide a very accurate estimate of actual development effort, but COCOMO is a "standard" and it doesn't use this extra information. Also, COCOMO is intended to include a lot more than just development effort -- it's supposed to estimate planning, discussion, testing, management, etc.
We can look into providing Ohloh's calculation of the total person-years from the source control logs as a new statistic.
about 19 hours ago
Hi Robin!
1- The widget shows the total number of lines of code and the total value of the project, so why not show the total number of contributors?
This has surely been debated/discussed.
In our information, we say that over 200 people have contributed to the source code of TikiWiki (which never ceases to impress me). This makes it awkward for us to put the nice ohloh widget, as you can see here: http://tikiwiki.org/Top-10+stats
2- The "Effort" of 652 Person Years seems too high to me. TikiWiki is 5 and half years old. This would be an average effort of about 120 persons per year since the beginning of the project. While we had loads of people working on the project, most are not full time. Maybe something is being counted in double?
Best regards,
M ;-)
about 20 hours ago
I've fixed the problem. There should be an updated Git report sometime today.
about 20 hours ago
This is a problem of poor communication on our part.
Ohloh counts "active contributors" as contributors who made at least one commit in the last 12 months.
There were 169 total contributors found in the source control logs. However, only 47 of those contributors did any work in the last 12 months.
So in the widget and most other places, Ohloh reports the number of contributors on this project as 47.
I admit in looking over the report that this is not at all clear.
about 20 hours ago
I've cleared up the problem and scheduled a new report, which should be ready later today.
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