Collection information

SourceKibitzer, now defunct, was an initiative to collect metrics about the performance of various open source software products. (Here is a Wikipedia article about SourceKibitzer.)

SourceKibitzer sent FLOSSmole their data on a regular basis from February 2007 through September 2007. We dutifully stored this data and it is available for researchers to use if they are interested in the SK metrics from this time period. The datasource ids are as follows:

51: 2007-Feb SourceKibitzer

56: 2007-Mar SourceKibitzer

62: 2007-Apr SK

67: 2007-May SK

73: 2007-Jun SK

79: 2007-Jul SK

85: 2007-Aug SK

91: 2007-Sep SK

Data explanation
Here are the metrics provided for 500-odd projects by SourceKibitzer:

project name

density of comments (DC: Density of comments. Ratio of sum of the comment lines to sum of all lines in all source files of the package. Indicates how much of the code is commented.)

todo count (TODO_COUNT: Number of TODO comments. Sums up the number of TODO comment lines in all source files of the package. The following patterns are recognized as TODO comments: FIX-ME, FIXME, FIX-IT, FIXIT, TO-DO, TODO, XXX, TBD.)

commented lines of code (CLOC: Number of lines that contain comments.)

OW2 Forge (formerly ObjectWeb forge) is used as a repository for projects created by developers of open source middleware in the OW2 community.

Freecode (formerly Freshmeat) is a directory of open source projects.

Every month we download Freecode's own RDF file of information about projects listed on that directory, parse the information, and load it into our database. We then provide that data freely back to you to do with as you wish.

Project Metadata: