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Sub-projects

I came along and found that there wasn't a project for Metacity (the GNOME window manager), so I created one:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/10193?p=metacity

But then I found that there was already a project for GNOME as a whole:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3760?p=GNOME

Is there any way to show that a project is a subproject of another project? Presumably if I add myself to GNOME it will count my metacity work twice; but I would like to be able to see stats for metacity separately, since it's a separate product and can (in theory) be used independently of the rest of GNOME. It also has a news feed which doesn't appear in the GNOME one and so on.

metacity is listed as a separate enlistment for GNOME with a string identical to Metacity's sole enlistment, so it should be possible to pick this up mechanistically.

If there isn't such a thing, should I add myself to GNOME and keep Metacity, add myself to GNOME and delete Metacity (thus losing interesting statistics), or keep away from GNOME and stay in the subproject?

Thomas Thurman over 16 years ago
 

Ohloh doesn't formalize the subproject idea yet, but that's the direction we're moving.

We already support it to a limited extent. For instance, we don't download the code and analyze the code twice -- we recognize when the same repository is referenced from multiple projects.

Also, if you list yourself as a contributor to both GNOME and Metacity, you'll be credited with the same number of years of experience -- our system won't credit you twice for work during the same time periods.

To follow the example that others seem to have developed, I recommend that you keep the new Metacity project, add your enlistment to both Metacity and GNOME, and then claim contributions to both projects with your account. In the long run this will be the correct answer, and we're partway there now.

Robin Luckey about 16 years ago
 

Lovely! Thanks a lot for a fast and helpful response.

Thomas Thurman over 16 years ago