new features at ohloh

posted 12:24AM May 08, 2007 with tags metrics ohloh opensource by Lars Trieloff

Having heard Ugo Cei's presentation on Web 2.0 open source project directories just some days ago, I had another look at Ohloh, the open source project directory that offers some interesting metrics on listed open source projects - and to my surprise, Ohloh was improved with many new features:
  • adding a project to your stack has become much easier
  • you get suggestions for software based on similar stacks
  • you can find out what other projects people are using that have stacked a project
  • there is a user and contributor map of users who have entered their location to their profile
  • you get an experience report based on the commits you have done on open source projects, so you can prove you have 25 years of HTML experience
  • you can give kudos to other developers and there is a ranking of contributors to open source projects based on activity and kudos' count
It is an interesting set of new features, even if Ohloh does not yet provide DOAP exports or activity feeds, which would help creating mashups based on this data, and even if the metrics can be inaccurate and popularity can be faked, I like the concept and the way Ohloh presents the gathered data.

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Metrics for XML documents

posted 10:00AM May 16, 2006 with tags metrics softwarequality xml by Lars Trieloff

xml.com features an interesting series on metrics for XML projects. So far most of the metrics focus on measuring XML schemas, not XML documents, but they are nevertheless worth reading: