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Ask HN: Tool for tracking open-source contributions?

by billboebel on 12/14/10, 5:16 AM with 4 comments

Has anyone seen a good tool for keeping track of employee code contributions to open source projects? We (rackspace) have hundreds of developers contributing code to all sorts of projects and I'm looking for a tool that will make it easy for our developers to self report what they contribute. If it doesn't exist we'll write one, but basically our product and legal teams want a log of this stuff for various reasons.

by rohitarondekar on 12/14/10, 5:32 AM
Even I've been looking for a good product that does this! The only one I've found so far is http://www.ohloh.net
As an example take a look at my contributions to Rails: http://www.ohloh.net/p/rails/contributors/146029001134 and my profile: http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/rohitarondekar
It does more then keep track of contributions but that's the most useful feature at ohloh at present.
by troymc on 12/14/10, 5:31 AM
Ohloh may not be exactly what you want, but it's similar; you can look up a particular contributor and see where they are contributing.
http://www.ohloh.net/
Here's an example person, chosen somewhat randomly:
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/meyering
by ibejoeb on 12/14/10, 5:33 AM
https://www.blackducksoftware.com