Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Cocotron on ohloh

I recently ran across ohloh, a networking-y site for open source projects, so I submitted Cocotron out of curiousity, here: The Cocotron on ohloh

The metrics are semi-interesting, amusing and useless at the same time.

Semi-interesting

The lines of codes/comments/blanks graphs.

Amusing

Project cost, $1.3 million, 25 years to develop.

"Very few source code comments". This is actually high considering most of the comments are license text.

Misrecognizing a small percentage of source as "Matlab" code.

Useless

The say they have something which scans all the source files for licenses to present a comprehensive view of multi-license projects, but despite almost all of the Cocotron source files having a generic MIT license in them, ohloh does not pick it up. (This is different than the project profile where I explicitly mark the project as MIT license)

1 Comments:

At 2/01/2008 5:22 AM, Blogger Alexey Zakhlestin said...

I added some tags and description — it helps if people are looking for a project on ohloh. Feel free to fix those :)

 

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