OT: www.ohloh.net / lots going on in the FOSS World

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:58 -0700, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> Maybe you are already familiar with
>    http://www.ohloh.net/
> but I just saw it recently.
> Here is a sample quote:
>    (from "http://www.ohloh.net/blog/the_cleanup"):
> 
> [...] there is simply a ton of cool, innovative work going on in the
> Open Source World. At the beginning of Ohloh, I felt a little lost
> trying to deal with the chaos of the open source world. Then I learned
> to effectively "deal with it". I've since transcended into the "loving
> & thriving in it" camp. Where I perceived chaos, I now see strength.
> Diversity and competition of ideas and technologies are are healthy
> symptoms of adaptability and progress. The species appear and evolve,
> and yes, sometimes die off. But the ecosystem as a whole continues to
> grow and solidify.
> 
> Lastly, we're back to moving Ohloh features forward. We will be
> turning our attention to our back-end for a while and see how far we
> can push our scalability and performance. We'd like to see how close
> to we can get to real-time metrics (for the record, I consider
> hourly-updates to be real-time enough).
> 
> Thanks for everyone's help and feedback.
> [/end quote]
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using ruby on rails I note

Craig