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OpenHub (formerly Ohloh) tries, or tried, to do this. Seems like it’s not getting a lot of love lately but perhaps you can learn from it. https://openhub.net/
by neilk 2y ago
OpenHub (formerly Ohloh) tries, or tried, to do this. Seems like it’s not getting a lot of love lately but perhaps you can learn from it.
https://openhub.net/ https://openhub.net/
One useful feature is the ability to coalesce different identities. For example, I've released libraries on my personal accounts as well as through work. For a while I used to link there from my personal site since it nearly summarized that I’d made N thousand commits to OSS. But I stopped. I’m not really sure what the point is for me.
https://openhub.net/accounts/neilk https://openhub.net/accounts/neilk
If it’s bragging rights, we have Github stars. Effectively (and sadly) open source is a resume building tool nowadays, so maybe that?
What use cases do you see?
- lelanthran 2y ago> What use cases do you see? "People who liked this also liked ..." "Most active developers on this also developed ..." "More projects using similar tech stack are ..." The value of IMDB is not getting a score on a movie, or a synopsis, it's in discovering other movies[1] that you might like. [1] The easiest way to discover is to ask for a list of Christopher Nolan movies :-)
- stanislavb 2y agoYup. OpenHub is nice. I love the simplicity of its design. What do you think about LibHunt https://www.libhunt.com https://www.libhunt.com? It's similar to OpenHub to some extent; however, it is more focussed on alternatives and comparisons of libraries. For example, a nice trick is to open any github repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" to find alternatives of that project. E.g. https://www.libhunt.com/site/find_alternatives https://www.libhunt.com/site/find_alternatives
- Aeolun 2y ago> Effectively (and sadly) open source is a resume building tool nowadays Is that sad? Isn’t that a purely positive signal?