XChat-GNOME

I Use This!

Activity Not Available

Analyzed 6 months ago. based on code collected 6 months ago.

Project Summary

XChat-GNOME is a new frontend to the popular X-Chat IRC client which is designed with the user interface foremost in mind. Historically, the OSS desktop has been steadily improving in usability, accessibility, and general slickness, yet the world of IRC clients has not kept up.

GNOME’s philosophy in terms of user interfaces has been progressing towards presenting the user with few options and sane defaults.

The authors decided that the GTK+ frontend provided excessive customizability without sufficient organization, which lead to clutter and confusion.

As such, XChat-GNOME was born, and is gaining popularity as an IRC client for people who care more about chatting than tweaking settings. If anyone is interested in helping out with the project, stop by #xchat-gnome on irc.freenode.net.

In a Nutshell, XChat-GNOME...

...
has had 5,552 commits made by 148 contributors
representing 103,740 lines of code
...
is mostly written in C
with a low number of source code comments
...
has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
...
took an estimated 26 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2004
ending with its most recent commit over 7 years ago

Quick Reference

(2 Locations)

Become the first manager for XChat-GNOME

Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

Poor security track-record

Favorable security track-record

Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities

Few reported vulnerabilities

About Project Vulnerability Report

Did You Know...

...
55% of companies leverage OSS for production infrastructure
...
anyone with an Open Hub account can update a project's tags
...
in 2016, 47% of companies did not have formal process in place to track OS code
...
compare projects before you chose one to use

About Project Security