@Daniel: architect to allow the users to choose the deploy method. Installing 50 copies of an app talking to 50 different databases causes other problems as well, obviously. Also, many hosting providers only allow one database.

The site has a front end which displays the data. Asking for the source code to the website frontend seems a little odd. It doesn't seem like a great candidate for open source. Feels like a smart ... [More] but small crew at Ohloh and not the type of place that can have a guy sitting around reviewing community supplied javascript widgets and testing them across the site and prioritizing and integrating them. There's also a backend which collects the data. That seems like a nightmare to keep running and again, I don't see how running community supplied bash and Perl scripts on their server farm improves things in the short term. Now, the statistics? Yes, I see value there. I'd like to see clear documentation of how all that works. I'd like to have an API for accessing the data. And I'd like to see the code and possibly even submit my own stuff. If they don't do this, sooner or later Linus will spend a couple days hacking it into Git. But this give us full access to your source tree stuff -- that's just naive. [Less]