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Primary Language: HTML?!
Hey folks,
For some reason, my project CrissCross shows on my profile (http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/4428) as having a primary language of HTML. There's no reason this should be the case, since it's a C++ project, and the only HTML in it was the Doxygen-generated HTML files which have been long since removed from the project.
Any ideas how to fix this or to get Ohloh to unscramble its brains?
- Steven Noonan
Hi Steven,
Ohloh determines primary language by how many lines of code a contributor changed. In the case of your contribution to CrissCross, this is confusing since as you mention, all you did was add and remove a single (but LARGE ~44K line) HTML file.
It's unlikely we'll address this problem in the immediate future, so you're options are to wait for this to fix itself -- it looks like you're very active and your C++ LOC will eclipse HTML on its own in a few months. Or if you want this to happen more quickly, you could check in a 10K line C++ file and then delete it.
In the fullness of time, we will likely come up with a solution for fixing this. A solution to this problem might be part of a broader feature we're considering: allowing contributors to reassign a commit to someone else, typically because they committed someone else's work. We might extend that to assigning the commit to null/nobody. I'd love your feedback on whether that idea or maybe something else would make sense.
Thanks for using Ohloh,
Andy
Uh, actually, it wasn't a single HTML file. It was all our doxygen-generated documentation, so it was about 50 different HTML files. But it very likely added up to at LEAST 44K. And I know just what to commit. Here's an AWFUL, AWFUL solution to a primality test that someone submitted to a coding contest I run. It'll surely be adequate to overshadow the HTML side of things:
http://idlesoft.net/prime1.cpp