From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T06:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding Software, prenatal projects at RubyForge (Was: format money)

On Friday, December 12, 2003, 6:34:23 AM, Tom wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:12, gabriele renzi wrote:
>> well.. how's the 'most active projects' stuff working?

> There's a formula buried somewhere in the GForge code with a bunch of
> multipliers for forum posts, CVS commits, number of developers,
> opened/closed bugs, and so forth.  It takes a lot of stuff into account.

It's pretty inscrutable.  I think the developers must have just been
hungry for some algorothm coding.

>> I think if a project has some commit in the latest N months it is
>> active, no matter how big they are. I suppose page view and downloads
>> are just useless for this classification

> Yup, kind of tricky to nail this one down...

Not really a problem at present or in the next year, is it?

Gavin