On Oct 30, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > hmm .. > > Someone should just create a SUN OpenOffice.org project > at Ohloh and point it to the Hg mirror, that way people > will get the credit they deserve. > > Assuming that Kudo level is so important ;).
On the other side when Andrew Rist commits the license header changes as a result of the Oracle SGAs then he will be at the top. If someone adds the OOo website tree - now separate from the podling then I'll get "undeserved" kudos for migrating other peoples work ... Regards, Dave > > Pedro. > > --- On Sun, 10/30/11, Michael Stahl <[email protected]> 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 >> >>
