amujumdar
New on Ohloh - project activity indicators
Open Source by the Numbers
Ask HN: What do you do to follow open-source projects?
Every OSS project is different in terms of how they manage their information, whether it comes from a blog, a forge, twitter, a mailing list. What do you all do when you are using or interested in an open-source project and want to keep track of development, updates, news, articles etc?
Interactive code analysis charts on Ohloh
http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux/analyses/latest
Ohloh just launched first set of interactive charts for code analysis. You can see code growth over time in terms of lines of code, languages, commits and committers. Checkout Linux (http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux/analyses/latest) or Rails (http://www.ohloh.net/p/rails/analyses/latest).
Ohloh has a new open source project comparison tool
http://www.ohloh.net/blog/New_Feature_Compare_Projects
Ohloh now has a new project comparison tool that shows comparison based on interesting code/repository stats. Try it out at https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare and let us know your comments/feedback.
Ohloh has fixed incorrect code analysis issue
http://www.ohloh.net/blog/Latest_Updates_to_Project_Statistics_and_Line_Counts
With the recent code push, Ohloh has fixed the issue that produced incorrect code analysis reports for many projects. More details in linked blog post. Since NumPy was mentioned on HN before; here is the updated analysis - https://www.ohloh.net/p/numpy/analyses/latest
We'll provide more details once transition is over (we just acquired Ohloh from Geeknet).
As far as I can tell, existing Ohloh features and community will stay as is and will remain free as we add more features and enhance the site. Feel free to email me <username> @ blackducksoftware.com if you'd like to ask any specific questions or have ideas/comments/suggestions.
FWIW - I think this FAQ covers a lot of questions - http://www.blackducksoftware.com/ohloh/faq.html