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Ohloh Ranks The World’s Coders
venturebeat.com — Ohloh, which ranks the nation ’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developer teams track and rank their own teams. It’s the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company that already distributes its coder profiles and related data to about 5,000 open source sites.
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- 10GunSalute, on 01/15/2008, -2/+14"Dude, I'll trade you my Larry Wall for your Stefan Kung!"
- jayakumark, on 01/15/2008, -1/+3Linus Torvalds is ranked at 33
- mlwarrior, on 01/15/2008, -0/+7You can read!
- Ademan, on 01/15/2008, -0/+4Linus said himself he doesn't do that much anymore, he manages people and approves patches essentially (this is probably way oversimplifying things, but i don't know enough to elaborate).
- jayakumark, on 01/15/2008, -1/+3Linus Torvalds is ranked at 33
- vabs, on 01/15/2008, -6/+1good info for source code users
- tightscrummy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I think this is dumbest comment I've ever seen anywhere.
- hellcola, on 01/15/2008, -6/+0hmm, great rank! :)
- allbubba, on 01/15/2008, -1/+18Any time I start looking at any source from Apache I always run into code by James Strachan (rank 104): http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/4785
Any time I start looking at any source from Sun I always run into code by Kohsuke Kawaguchi (rank 173) :http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/1474
If only e-mail responsiveness could be measured, Kohsuke would be #1 in Ohloh. I had an issue with XSOM that he fixed within an hour.
Some day when coding performance measurements get better, software developers will get paid like world-class athletes, with the top developers getting millions. Kudos to Ohloh for pushing this forward and increasing the visibility of the developers of the open source software we use every day.- colonelbuckshot, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1do you stress the 'h' in Kohsuke
- allbubba, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Honestly I've never even tried pronouncing his name and haven't talked to him outside of e-mail. I wouldn't even try to pronounce it without hearing somebody else say it correctly.
- colonelbuckshot, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1do you stress the 'h' in Kohsuke
- OnipSemaj, on 01/15/2008, -18/+2"Ohcount count lines of code contributed by a developer. It supports 35 languages, including C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Ruby, HTML and XML"
Just to clarify, HTML and XML are not languages.- allbubba, on 01/15/2008, -1/+14Hypertext Markup LANGUAGE, eXtensible Markup LANGUAGE. They may not have control flow or be real programming languages, but they do have syntax and grammar. On many projects XML is used for Domain-Specific Languages and may even have code embedded in tags.
- OnipSemaj, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Yes, they are MARKUP languages (big difference). Sorry, I forgot to put the word "programming". Even though HTML is considered "code", it is only for the presentation layer, and is often automatically generated. Following that line of logic, they should count CSS and XSLT. Most SLOC counters do not count lines of HTML or XML, and definitely ignore markup inside code (e.g., you could have dozens of lines of HTML inside a print statement in PHP or Perl, and it would only be counted as ONE line).
- speerross, on 01/25/2008, -0/+2They're still languages.
- OnipSemaj, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Yes, they are MARKUP languages (big difference). Sorry, I forgot to put the word "programming". Even though HTML is considered "code", it is only for the presentation layer, and is often automatically generated. Following that line of logic, they should count CSS and XSLT. Most SLOC counters do not count lines of HTML or XML, and definitely ignore markup inside code (e.g., you could have dozens of lines of HTML inside a print statement in PHP or Perl, and it would only be counted as ONE line).
- davidkeithjones, on 01/15/2008, -2/+5No need to get stupid technical, we all get the differences so relax a little.
- offput, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3They're languages, just not programming languages.
- allbubba, on 01/15/2008, -1/+14Hypertext Markup LANGUAGE, eXtensible Markup LANGUAGE. They may not have control flow or be real programming languages, but they do have syntax and grammar. On many projects XML is used for Domain-Specific Languages and may even have code embedded in tags.
- pixelbeat_, on 01/15/2008, -1/+2I find http://www.ohloh.net/ slow at the best of times
I wonder how it will handle this load :)- LudoA, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Always very fast for me, and I don't have an especially fast connection.
- dijo, on 01/15/2008, -0/+6If i get into the top 10 will i get laid?
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/15/2008, -0/+7if by laid you really mean a bunch of other nerds will know your name then sure your gonna get laid all right.
- mlwarrior, on 01/15/2008, -3/+1"Random quip about digg's software engineers"
- skasata, on 01/15/2008, -2/+3their logo is photoshopped... the reflections are all wrong.
- ratbear, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3Ironically, their offices are about 6 blocks away from the main Microsoft campus in Redmond.
- xpankrat, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4This is completely useless, borderline lame.
- squirreljam, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4Agreed, rating someone by their activity != their ability....wouldn't like to go on holiday...
- ghandi69, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1And how exactly would you rank them on their "ability"??
While no ranking system is ever perfect, I think judging them by what they have done is about as good as it is going to get.
- ghandi69, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1And how exactly would you rank them on their "ability"??
- squirreljam, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4Agreed, rating someone by their activity != their ability....wouldn't like to go on holiday...
- HonestAbe, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Open source bug tracking software needs a built-in bounty system for bugs that no one wants to fix but lots of people are willing to pay to get fixed.
- LudoA, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Yes, but that's really not related to this.
- tobiasly, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3dugg because it's not another damn apple story.
(and stefan kung is a superhuman coding machine...) - VacaN, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Great, lets turn Open Source into a popularity contest.
- steve248, on 01/17/2008, -0/+0Like any heavily programming based site, the design could use some polish and site organized slightly better, but the underlying technology behind this service is solid. I doubt Ohloh will dominate this category in a few years, but they're definitely paving the way for things to come.
- klmace24, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0I like the idea of recognition for contribution, but I thought one of the main problems with opensource software was its lack of support for less popular technology. Why weight popular project contributions more heavily? Won't that discourage rank-minded coders from filling in the remaining holes?
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