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Open Source developer ranking by ohloh
Slashdot has a
report
about the startup-company
ohloh, which adds to the
Web 2.0 / social network hype by analyzing open source developers'
activity, and giving some feedback on the language they make
their commits in, their experience (no idea how that's calculated),
median monthly number of commits and line changes as well as some
"kudo"-based ranking system that reminds me of
Advogato.
Search can be done by project or by person. Examples of the
former include
NetBSD
and
pkgsrc, and if there's a proof needed
that I'm a total slacker codewise (I won't argue there :),
see
my entry.
All in all the "service" looks funny, but I'd somewhat doubt if
someone's productivity in an Open Source can be judged purely by
looking at the number of commits and lines of code. While this
is true for small projects, management overhead grows with project
size, and you can't measure management (and similar things like
public relations, release engineering, security handling, etc.)
in lines of code or commits.
[Tags: advogato, ohloh]
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