ohloh: Open Source Directory

I was browsing Ohloh today which is a cool open source software directory. The thing that makes Ohloh somewhat unique is that they try to provide an objective way for users to find open source software that meets their needs. For example, when I checked out the Firefox page, I was directed to related projects like Konqueror. Or when I checked out JBoss Application Server and I see that similarly related projects including Apache Geronimo.

I was also happy to see that there was a entry for Zenoss Core and we had a few ratings, and a review. It also has something called a Project Cost which is ohloh’s metrics for the estimated effort required to produce a given piece of software. If you take a look at Zenoss Core it says that it would take 180 person years, which I can’t speak to. What I can say is the reason it took us considerably less effort was that we are able to leverage work done by the Python, Zope, Twisted, RRDTool, and MySQL projects along with quite a few others.
What makes this site work is user contributions for ratings and reviews. So I would encourage all our members to take an opportunity to rate Zenoss Core on the ohloh site and include us in your stacks (a sort of open source favorites list) along with all your other favorite open source projects. Thanks for your support.