Sites for OS you may not have heard of…
February 15, 2007
Recently, I stumbled upon a few nifty tools that let you find out more about OS projects.
First is Ohloh, which I came across as I was looking at the OGRE site. It collects some nice and useful stats about any project with a CM repository. It counts LOC, including percentages of code that are in various languages, it builds some nice history views – history of developer commits, and an overview graph of code history. It also has an interesting project effort and cost calculator. Based on these stats, it makes a few assertions like “mature codebase”, ”active development” etc. It also collects rss feeds related to a project, and lets users add their own reviews, etc. Things I would really like to see is a way to browse projects instead of just search for them. When they have collected such detailed stats, it offers the possibility to browse OS projects in cool ways that they have not yet offered.
Second up is Krugle - it is yet another code search engine. But this one offers a nice ajaxy interface including tabs (with search results and invidual code views given in different tabs). It also has a treeview which shows each of the code files being viewed in the context of the other files from the same project – an excellent feature.
