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hi

I had a look at the project page for Xith3D here on ohloh. And there are some little questions, I have a bout it.

How is the kudo rank assembled, that is attached to a project's contributors? It doesn't seem to be off the commit count only.

I am Xith3D's lead developer. How can I make ohloh display this for me in the list of contributors?

When I develop on Windows (very rare) and commit something to SVN, my account name is starting with am upper case letter (Qudus) (no idea, why) and if committing from Linux it's written all lower case as it should be. Unfortunately ohloh treats me as two separate developers. Is there a way to merge me?

It would also be cool, if my real name would be displayed instead of my account name to help people recognize me. My real name is applicable through sourceforge.

Thanks in advance.

Marvin

Marvin Fröhlich... over 16 years ago

ok. I found out, how to change my contributor's titles. On the same page I got the chance to give kudo to myself. And I thought: Why not? Everyone else will do this, too. Now I have a kudo rank of 1. Is this because I gave kudo to myself? How can I undo this, if this is the reason?

Marvin

Marvin Fröhlich... over 16 years ago

Hi Marvin,

The system will ignore any kudos you gave to yourself.

Once Ohloh knows that you are the same person as a source control committer, it no longer allows you to give or remove kudos to that person. If you set up some kudos before this, that's OK, our system just ignores them.

Your KudoRank currently shows as 1 because we only recalculate the scores once per night. If there are major changes (since as associating a contribution with an account), then the score shows as 1 until we do the nightly recalculation.

KudoRank comes from two sources.

First, other Ohloh members can give kudos directly to you. These kudos are not related to commits in any way, and don't require you to write any code.

Second, other Ohloh member may stack a project that you worked on. When this happens, everyone on the project receives some kudos, and these kudos are distributed proportionately depending on how many commits you made to the project source code.

Let me know if you have more questions,

Robin

Robin Luckey over 16 years ago

Hi Robin,

thanks for the detailed reply.

Yes, I have more questions. The two remaining ones from my initial posting ;).

Here they are again:
When I develop on Windows (very rare) and commit something to SVN, my account name is starting with am upper case letter (Qudus) (no idea, why) and if committing from Linux it's written all lower case as it should be. Unfortunately ohloh treats me as two separate developers. Is there a way to merge me?

It would also be cool, if my real name would be displayed instead of my account name to help people recognize me. My real name is applicable through sourceforge.

Marvin

Marvin Fröhlich... over 16 years ago

Yes to both questions.

First, to merge names, we have a feature we call Aliases. From the project page, there is a link to Edit Aliases in the left nav menu. From there, you can map one name to become another. Be sure to map the names to the one you have associated with your account.

Second, from your account edit profile page, you can change your displayed name (it's the second box, after Login).

In some places Ohloh displays your login, in others we show your real name. On the contributors list, we show your real name.

Robin Luckey over 16 years ago

Thank you very much. It worked like a charm :).

Marvin

Marvin Fröhlich... over 16 years ago

Hi Robin...

Don't know if I should start a new thread, but since Marvin's questions summarizes 90% of my own questions.. here we go:

I'd like to merge all my accounts (commit accounts) into my profile.

So, lets take Gralha project as an example. There are 2 contributors roger and roger.demetrescu which represent me. I have added my self (Roger Demetrescu) as contributor, but I am not able to make aliases of the accounts names to my real name.

The problem is that someone can give a kudu to roger.demetrescu and that won't reflect into my account.

That happened in Turbogears project. The roger.demetrescu is me... but I decided to start using the real name instead of account name. Now I envy my account, which has kudu rank of 7, while mine is 6... :)

https://www.ohloh.net/projects/turbogears/contributors?query=roger

How do we merge ohloh account with projects commiters ?

Thanks in advance.

Roger

Roger Demetrescu over 16 years ago

Hi Roger,

The alias feature can only combine existing committer names within a source control repository. The alias feature doesn't know anything about Ohloh accounts or real names.

The first step in these situations is to set up the aliases so that all of the various source control committer names are combined into a single preferred committer name.

Once that is completed, you can then associate that preferred committer name with your Ohloh account. When that happens, we will display those commits using your Ohloh account name instead of the original committer name.

So for example in the Gralha project, I would create an alias that maps roger to roger.demetrescu. After the next Ohloh report update, all commits from both of these users will be visible as roger.demetrscu.

Then, click the I am this person button on the reger.demetrscu committer details page, which will associate all of that activity with your Ohloh account. From then on, that activity will be displayed using your real name from your Ohloh account.

If you've already added your Ohloh account to the list of contributors for Gralha, but it is showing 0 commits, that's because you've tied your Ohloh account to a name that does not appear in the source control committer names. You can fix this from your account profile page. Under the experience section, click the EDIT link in the Gralha box. That will take you to a form where you can change the committer name. Change it to roger.demetrescu, the preferred committer name that all of the aliases are pointing to, and that should fix you up.

It's all very tricky and poorly explained. My only defense is that this is historical code built up gradually, starting long before Ohloh had user accounts. We really need to fix all of this, but there's so many things to fix.....

If you have more questions or can't get it straightened out, let me know and I'll take a crack at it.

Thanks,
Robin

Robin Luckey over 16 years ago

Hi Robin,

roger is already aliased as roger.demetrescu. When I click the I am this person in roger.demetrescu I get:

You already have a position on this project. Ohloh supports only one position per project. Edit the aliases table instead.

Well, I am pretty sure I have already done that in the past. I tried to unregister my Ohloh account from Gralha project (to reassign myself to roger.demetrescu) and couldn't find how.

What happens if I click I am this person for a wrong developer ? How can I undo this ? What if I say I am linus.torvalds ? :)

https://www.ohloh.net/projects/Gralha/contributors

I the above url, there is no option to remove myself from the contributors list...

Anyway, in Who contributes to Gralha? box there is already a Roger Demetrescu and roger.demetrescu. According to what I understood from your previous reply, those 2 persons will be listed separately while the commiter x account merge is not ready, right ?

Thanks,

Roger

Roger Demetrescu over 16 years ago