sl4shd0t
02-21-2008, 07:12 PM
eldavojohn writes "The startup company Ohloh has a database listing 70,000 developers working on 11,000 open source projects. Their aim is to 'rank' open source developers, which raises some interesting questions about exactly how useful this tracking company is. Questions like, 'Is there an accurate way beyond word of mouth to measure the importance and skill of a developer?' I found it slightly alarming that, to this site, the number of commits (with input from the number of kudos) tells how good a developer you are."Read more of this story (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/21/1733257&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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