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Ohloh Tracks Open Source Developers

Posted by kdawson on from the over-your-shoulder dept.

eldavojohn writes "The startup company Ohloh has a database listing 70,000 developers working on 11,000 open source projects. Their aim is to 'rank' open source developers, which raises some interesting questions about exactly how useful this tracking company is. Questions like, 'Is there an accurate way beyond word of mouth to measure the importance and skill of a developer?' I found it slightly alarming that, to this site, the number of commits (with input from the number of kudos) tells how good a developer you are."

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  1. Accurate? Not for me by mrslacker · · Score: 5, Interesting


    I don't know how representative it is, or if it might improve over time, but I looked myself up.

    I found mentions in 5 projects - _except_ they're all just versions of 2.6 kernel source with the same contribution for an obscure TV card cx88 variant I did. In practice, I'm sure I'm hardly alone in having contributions (mostly in small ways, but sometimes very considerably) to over 100 projects over the years. I guess I have to go through and add some of those projects.

    Naw, CBA. At least I can make sure my resume is accurate.