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HotaruCMS SVN contributors missing
I've just yesterday added the HotaruCMS project on ohloh.net ( https://www.ohloh.net/p/hotarucms )and I am facing a problem with the number of contributors and the way the SVN enlistment is being parsed.
The development for HotaruCMS is made in the branches for each release. Then, when the time has come for a release to be made we create a release tag from the branch and then we merge the branch to the trunk.
ohloh.net SVN browser has taken only the history of the trunk to find how many contributors there are and it came up with the number 3. While this is true for the trunk, it is not just for the people working in the branches. The number of contributors should be 9.
Is there something that can be done to have that fixed?
petsagouris:
Right now ohloh's database model doesn't understand branching or merging. Thus the work done on other branches is totally ignored by ohloh.
Some folks on ohloh have tried to work around this by adding all the branches as enlistments in addition to trunk.
The problem with that approach is then code is counted multiple times in some cases and you end up with inaccurate statistics.
The problem is a lot worse with distributed source control systems like GIT. There since branching is so common and easy you end up with very inaccurate stats on Ohloh.
Fixing this is very high on our priority list. It's also many weeks of work.
I'm afraid right now there isn't much you can do about it. Sorry.
Alright, thanks for the clear explanation.
I'll try to live with it :)