John Clements wrote at 07/06/2011 08:53 PM:
2) I see that we're "in the top 2% of all open-source projects" according to ohloh. Perhaps we should advertise this?
Below is very opinion-heavy seat-of-pants reaction. I'm not familiar with Ohloh, and I could be off the mark...
The Ohloh site seems oriented towards PHBs who use 'analysis' like "decreasing year-over-year development activity" without wondering whether it's at all accurate and meaningful. (Yes, that's what they say about Racket, with a yellow warning graphic. And only 2 people on that site claim to use Racket, which just looks funny.)
A quick poll of open source developers I bumped into, including one loosely connected to Ohloh, said nothing positive about it. Personally, I would invest a little effort in making Racket look good on Ohloh now that we're there, since that might serendipitously come in handy for a PHB someday. But I don't know that I would link to Ohloh or mention them outside of their own site right now. Too much like those tacky bogus "Top x% Web Site" awards in the late '90s.
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