On 30.10.2011 20:19, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Am 30.10.2011 19:23, schrieb Eike Rathke: > >> Hi, >> >> Whoever had the brilliant idea to make Ohloh's source code repository >> entry for OOo https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice point to the AOOo >> repository instead trashed over 10 years worth of 10000s commits of 100s >> developers. Congratulations. > > As most of them were tracked as commits from our former release > engineers and so are misleading anyway, perhaps its not such a big loss. :-)
indeed, because of the CVS and SVN approach to merge tracking authorship was not properly recorded for the most part of OOo history, so the loss is not big. but still, apparently Eike disagrees with that; it would have been nice to ask first before making this change. at least the historic data is still available at the LO project, the history there still begins with Heiner's initial CVS import: https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice/ the change seems especially pointless since there already was an Apache OOo project at Ohloh: https://www.ohloh.net/p/apacheoffice/ it seems to me that there is some kind of counting error at the new OpenOffice.org project: a comparison with AOOo shows that it counts every commit twice. also, another deficiency of most SCM systems that makes Ohloh statistics unreliable is that they only track the committer, but not the author of a commit, which is not necessarily the same person (git gets this right). hmm, now Ohloh claims that i am the #1 contributor to OpenOffice.org, how ridiculous is that... regards, michael
