Forums : Suggestions for Ohloh 2.0
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It would be useful to be able
It would be useful to be able to indicate dependencies between projects. There are big differences between front-end app projects (like, say, Firefox), used by thousands, and middle-ware and low-level support libraries (used by few developers directly). If dependencies were modelled, latter group could get some fraction of 'stack points' from projects that use them. There should be multiple types of dependencies (for example: hard, i.e. mandatory; alternate-mandatory [one of set of projects is mandatory, not all], and fully optional). And it might be nice to be able to indicate possible version restrictions (although this does get rather complicated).
Such dependency graph would be useful for multiple reasons (beyond just silly stack point aspect): one is simply to be able to see dependencies themselves, when reading about projects. Dependencies give some indication about the project itself.
It could also help in finding similar packages (your friends tell a lot about yourself etc) and many other classification purposes: especially when combined with other dependencies (developers of a project; tagging etc).
Hi Tatu,
Some form of dependencies are something we've thought about a few times. Thanks for making some specific and thoughtful suggestions on the details of how to do it.
This isn't in our short-term plans but we'll probably add some form of dependencies, possibly leveraging the multi-stack code we want to add.
Thanks!
Allow me to draw attention to this little request (even if the title of this thread is very unfortunate). As long as dependencies aren't at least attempted to get tracked, we get a very skewed (bordering to completely inaccurate) view on the used by
counter etc as random users won't mark underlying but important corner stones of the system.
