Does anyone use ohloh.net for their open source projects?

Question

I'm looking into finding a few open source projects to get some experience with. I'm currently not a user of ohloh.net but I might want to join if there are some people who use it for projects.

Is this a good alternative to Github? Or are they completely different?

Answer 1

Does anyone use ohloh.net for their open source projects?

Clearly yes ... though not necessarily in the sense that you mean.

Is this a good alternative to Github? Or are they completely different?

They are rather different. Github (and SourceForge, GoogleCode and a few others) are more or less "full spectrum" project hosting sites.

Ohloh.net is more a social site for open source developers. It is a good place for finding out who is "big", who contributes to what projects, and what projects are valuable to the community. The project download service is secondary to this.

You cannot host a project on Ohloh because (for a start) there is no facility for code checkin.

Answer 2

I've been on ohloh for some time and to be honest I don't find it useful; and it does not seem to have much traction among the open source folks I know. I suspect it will die

Answer 3

Ohloh now belongs to Black Duck Software as of a couple of months ago. I'm the new Product Manager for Ohloh. I've known about Ohloh for many years, and always thought the site had great potential. And to reiterate what Stephen said above, Ohloh is not a forge / project hosting site, but rather a social site. We're just getting started making some much needed improvements to Ohloh (Sprint 1 deployed last week, Sprint 2 on track for this week).

Answer 4

I use it, but it's not something I log into and mess with every often. They've got some neat ideas, and I hope the site sticks around. Maybe GitHub should look into buying it from it's current owners and incorporate that functionality. Heck, GitHub should buy Freshmeat at the same time (I think FM and Ohloh are both owned by the same outfit anyway).