Ohloh

Ohloh is a website dedicated to cataloging open source software projects. It covers basic information, such as project name, website, short description and license. Project managers can also announce access to the repository of the project. Based on these data, created Ohloh statistics about the project, which companies can assist you in deciding on the purchase of free software.

The following statistics created Ohloh:

• Overview (including maturity of the code comments in the code development team size, Historical Development of posts)
• Code analysis ( programming languages ​​used, lines of code and comments, Historical development of the code )
• Project staff (number of commits per employee, Historical development )
• Publications ( including the last commit comments)

Similar projects, but with a different objective, are SourceForge, BerliOS and Freshmeat.

History

Ohloh was founded in 2004 by two former Microsoft managers employed by Jason Allen and Scott Collison in Bellevue, Washington. Other participants in the developer Robin Luckey heard.

On 28 May 2009 it was announced that Ohloh was acquired by SourceForge.

On September 30, 2010 Black Duck Software has bought the side of Geeknet ( the company behind SourceForge ).

The portal grew enormously in the past. It consisted in December 2007 or 99 977 people with 9,824 projects in 32 languages ​​and 58 documented open source licenses. In October 2009 there were already 399 334 people with 413 261 projects in 77 languages ​​and 253 open- source licenses.