Ohloh is sweet

The more I play with Ohloh, the more I like it. I've added Facter and ldapsh to the site (Puppet was already there), and I've played a bit with how to record contributions and how code is tracked. I have to say, I've been waiting for a site like this for ages. It's very developer-centric, in that it's not necessarily something that a user would want to use to find and download projects, but I'm perfectly comfortable with that. Frankly, though, I think it could quickly overtake sites like Freshmeat and SourceForge, at least partially because they don't seem to have changed in years, even though there are plenty of opportunities for them to get better.

I love that I can get a great idea of what's actually happening in a project, rather than some mystical 'activity' metric, and people can claim their work across multiple projects. I think a site like this could really encourage open source development because people will be able to point to a central metric of what they're doing across the different projects they're on.

You can check my stats on the site, although anyone who follows my work won't exactly be surprised by where my time goes. You can also compare Puppet, Bcfg2, and Cfengine, which I think is interesting (it's especially interesting to check the number of contributers_ to Cfengine).