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not sure if freshmeat and google code are the all that 'authorative' about the opensource projects using languages. for one most Ruby projects are hosted on git

• davidw 17y ago
  I'm more interested in releases than 'hosted projects', as many of the latter are unfinished. Which is why I've always used Freshmeat rather than Sourceforge. I agree that it's probably a bit long in the tooth, and I'd be happy to add something newer, as long as it's not too terribly biased. Which, however, I think github (and StackOverflow) continue to be: the former in favor of Ruby, the latter in favor of various Microsoft things.
  • Vitaly 17y ago
    well, the best thing might be to just combine all the project listings you can pull from all the sites together. for what it worth you can try to only pull recent projects, or projects passing some minimal threshold of 'usage' like download count on sf or watch/fork count on github. but w/o counting the github you are severely undercounting ruby projects. the ones on google code and freshmeat are a statistical aberration to the real count :) ruby people just don't care enough about freashmeat to use it much. all that matters is really just on the github. 'releases' announced on blogs/mailing lists and by releasing new version of a 'gem'. no need to duplicate it on some horrible 'releases' site still stuck in the 90-s :). rubygems package manager does a great job of informing people of new versions.