Was it still useful? (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 19:00 (#26D) I used to use freshmeat a bit. I guess back in the .. 90's? But searching improvements (google, etc) and distribution packaging improved immensly in the past 15-20 years.Sad to see it go - but just for nostalgia reasons. Is there anyone around here that'll actually miss it, functionally? Re: Was it still useful? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-21 01:30 (#27E) Yeah but freshmeat was both usable and useful. When they went web2, rewrote it in ruby and rebranded as freecode... what the hell was that about?Freecode is a pointless site that nobody will miss. There probably still is a place for something like freshmeat... Bryan? Ohloh (Score: 2, Informative) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 20:48 (#292) There is a similar site called Ohloh that has been active for a few years now: https://www.ohloh.net/Ohloh is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. Ohloh Code is a publicly available, free code search site that indexes most of the projects in Ohloh.Ohloh is editable by everyone, like a wiki. All are welcome to join and add new projects, and to make corrections to existing project pages. This public review helps to make Ohloh one of the largest, most accurate, and up-to-date FOSS software directories available. We encourage contributors to join Ohloh and claim their commits on existing projects and add projects not yet on Ohloh, to assemble a complete profile of all their FOSS code contributions.Ohloh is not a forge - it does not host projects and code. Ohloh is a directory, a community, and analytics and search services. By connecting to project source code repositories, analyzing both the code's history and ongoing updates, and attributing those updates to specific contributors, Ohloh can provide reports about the composition and activity of project code bases, and aggregate this data to track the changing demographics of the FOSS world.
Re: Was it still useful? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-21 01:30 (#27E) Yeah but freshmeat was both usable and useful. When they went web2, rewrote it in ruby and rebranded as freecode... what the hell was that about?Freecode is a pointless site that nobody will miss. There probably still is a place for something like freshmeat... Bryan? Ohloh (Score: 2, Informative) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 20:48 (#292) There is a similar site called Ohloh that has been active for a few years now: https://www.ohloh.net/Ohloh is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. Ohloh Code is a publicly available, free code search site that indexes most of the projects in Ohloh.Ohloh is editable by everyone, like a wiki. All are welcome to join and add new projects, and to make corrections to existing project pages. This public review helps to make Ohloh one of the largest, most accurate, and up-to-date FOSS software directories available. We encourage contributors to join Ohloh and claim their commits on existing projects and add projects not yet on Ohloh, to assemble a complete profile of all their FOSS code contributions.Ohloh is not a forge - it does not host projects and code. Ohloh is a directory, a community, and analytics and search services. By connecting to project source code repositories, analyzing both the code's history and ongoing updates, and attributing those updates to specific contributors, Ohloh can provide reports about the composition and activity of project code bases, and aggregate this data to track the changing demographics of the FOSS world.
Ohloh (Score: 2, Informative) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-24 20:48 (#292) There is a similar site called Ohloh that has been active for a few years now: https://www.ohloh.net/Ohloh is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. Ohloh Code is a publicly available, free code search site that indexes most of the projects in Ohloh.Ohloh is editable by everyone, like a wiki. All are welcome to join and add new projects, and to make corrections to existing project pages. This public review helps to make Ohloh one of the largest, most accurate, and up-to-date FOSS software directories available. We encourage contributors to join Ohloh and claim their commits on existing projects and add projects not yet on Ohloh, to assemble a complete profile of all their FOSS code contributions.Ohloh is not a forge - it does not host projects and code. Ohloh is a directory, a community, and analytics and search services. By connecting to project source code repositories, analyzing both the code's history and ongoing updates, and attributing those updates to specific contributors, Ohloh can provide reports about the composition and activity of project code bases, and aggregate this data to track the changing demographics of the FOSS world.