And the winner is …

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 03 May 2007

According to Ohloh.net, ejabberd is the number one Open Source project of all time.

If you have been to Ohloh.net a few minutes ago, you should have seen that ejabberd was the number one Open Source project of all time.

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This screenshot is not a fake. We are very popular, but a slight manipulation in Ohloh.net can allow you to get a even better result smile Can you guess what we did to get this result smile

What we have learned here is that:

  • The popularity algorithm of Ohloh is simple. It is the number of incoming link to a website on Yahoo! We would be glad to help adding other interesting metrics in the calculation.
  • The web site should moderate the sensitive informations. The URL of the project is one of them as it is used to calculate the popularity.

Yes, you have probably guessed that changing your project URL to http://www.google.com/ is enough to make you the most popular project on Ohloh.net.



Categories: Jabber / XMPP  ejabberd  

Comments

anonymous avatar

A better way to compare is to see how much website link to the ejabberd website and how many link to the Openfire page.

Posted by open the fire to censorship on 04 May 2007 at 21:44



 
Mickaël Rémond's avatar

Hello,

That’s what ohloh does. From their FAQ, they says they are using the number of link pointing to a page given by Yahoo!

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 05 May 2007 at 07:58



 
Mickaël Rémond's avatar

However, Ohloh currently removed the popularity calculation.
They are currently improving it.

Posted by Mickaël Rémond on 05 May 2007 at 08:00



 
anonymous avatar

hehe, yahoo in this situation makes life much better smile

Posted by Rob on 10 May 2007 at 23:49



 


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