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Suggested project feeds
One thing I notice is that lots of my projects aren't listed on Ohloh. Well, I could add them I suppose, but how about some suggestions for feeds you could use to automatically add projects.
(1) Freshmeat.net - this should be obvious! I'm guessing the reason you don't use it must be legal/contractual?
(2) Look at the Fedora CVS.
Start at: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/
Each of those is a Fedora package, so let's take one of mine as an example: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/virt-df/virt-df.spec?revision=1.5&view=markup
Notice the spec file contains the project name, link to the upstream project and latest tarball, and a (Fedora) changelog.
(BTW, instead of scraping web pages, be a good citizen and checkout the Fedora CVS, instructions are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_CVS )
(3) Similar thing for Debian starting at http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages
Hope this is helpful,
Rich.
Ooops, one thing I forgot to add.
How about alllowing people to suggest web pages which contain lists of projects. I assume that you already spider websites, so let people submit pages that can act as a start point.
For example, you don't have much in the way of OCaml projects on this site. But if you started here: http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/hump.en.cgi then you'd be able to find a few hundred.
Hi Rich,
We currently don't do any crawling -- all new projects on Ohloh are added by hand.
The idea of crawling for project data is a fine one. We could certainly scale out to cover a lot more projects than we currently do.
However it does create the problem of dirty, unreliable data. We did a single crawl early in Ohloh's history to seed our database, and we ended up with a lot of outdated data and duplicated projects. Most of the projects we crawled this way either needed to be cleaned up by hand, or were dead
projects that no one ever searches for anyway. So these problems need to be addressed before we start crawling in earnest.
This all might change in the future, but for now it's simpler for us -- and our data is cleaner -- with a human touch. When someone actively involved in the project sets up the Ohloh profile, we have high confidence in the quality of (and the demand for) that data.
Robin
