Hi, in short: it's good for job applications and the kudo rank depends on the rating of the projects a developer contributes to.
Am 07.07.2014 23:24, schrieb Riot: > In what way does ohloh affect us, and why do we need to care if the > mingw-w64 project is rated highly on it or not? > > > On 7 July 2014 21:27, André Hentschel <n...@dawncrow.de > <mailto:n...@dawncrow.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > On Ohloh.net we have only 14 official users ([1]), while mingw has > nearly 300 and Wine more than 1000... > I think we should do our best to improve our user count there, because > Ohloh became somewhat important in the OSS world. > If you try to add MinGW-w64 to it and you type "mingw" because you're > lazy, you'll get a long list of projects. And while "mingw-w64-dgn" is > available in that list, MinGW-w64 is not. > Only if you add a hyphen ("mingw-") you'll find MinGW-w64 in the list - > at the end of the list. > > I first though it's a chicken-egg problem: Having only 14 people marking > us as "I use this" makes Ohloh think we're not that popular. > But mingw-w64-dgn only has one user and is more visible in the list.... > > Tasks: > * I just changed the Ohloh project name from "MinGW-w64 - for 32 and 64 > bit Windows" to "MinGW-w64", because the help on it says "Please use as > short a name as possible." > * We should highlight a button on the website, e.g. "I Use It - Simple" > from [2] > * Collect other ideas to improve the situation > > > [1] https://www.ohloh.net/p/mingw-w64 > [2] https://www.ohloh.net/p/mingw-w64/widgets > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community > Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
