Open Hub
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Type of site
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Public directory of Free and open source software (FOSS) |
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| Owner | Black Duck Software |
| Created by | Jason Allen and Scott Collison |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | yes |
| Launched | 1 January 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
Black Duck Open Hub, formerly Ohloh, is a website which provides a web services suite and online community platform that aims to index the open source software development community. It was founded by former Microsoft managers Jason Allen and Scott Collison in 2004 and joined by the developer Robin Luckey. As of 15 January 2016[update], the site lists 669,601 open source projects, 681,345 source control repositories, 3,848,524 contributors and 31,688,426,179 lines of code.
On 28 May 2009, Ohloh was acquired by Geeknet, owners of the popular open source development platform SourceForge. However, Geeknet sold Ohloh to the open source analysis company Black Duck Software on 5 October 2010. Black Duck integrated Ohloh's functionality with their existing products to advance the site into a major resource for FOSS development.
On 18 July 2014, Ohloh became Black Duck Open Hub.
In late August 2014, the Black Duck Open Hub's Organizations feature moved out of Beta and into Version 1.0.
By retrieving data from revision control repositories (such as CVS, SVN, Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial), Black Duck Open Hub provides statistics about the longevity of projects, their licenses (including license conflict information) and software metrics such as source lines of code and commit statistics. The codebase history informs about the amount of activity for each project. Software stacks (list of software applications used by Black Duck Open Hub's members) and tags are used to calculate the similarity between projects.
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