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How to deal with forks on ohloh?
We work on a software project that led to a fork, and both projects are registered on ohloh. For the forked project, all commits to the original project are also copied to the fork, however, not by the original authors but by the manager of the fork.
Yet Ohloh defines the authors of the code (and not the person who commits) as the contributor, so everybody who works for the original project is also listed as a contributor to the forked project. This creates the illusion that the same people contribute and are dedicated to the forked project as are for the original project, providing misleading credibility to the fork.
As I guess we are not the only software group having forks:
Is there a way to fix this? What do other forked project do to circumvent this?
Is there a possibility that ohloh interprets the committing person and the original author of the code separately?
i noticed the same issue
