github

A decade of forges

We here at FLOSSmole have been gathering data about how free, libre, and open source software is made for about 10 years now, actually a little more.

In that time, a lot has changed in the forge landscape, both with the players and with the tools.

Just for fun, I decided to run a few quick queries to show the ascendance of Github and the concurrent decline of some smaller forges. These two graphs show the rate of new project creation (called 'registration' on Rubyforge and 'creation' at Github - and yes, the Github numbers do include forks).

May 2012 data releases

Data files have been released for May 2012. Go check it out on our Google Code downloads page.

Re-writes:
--Free Software Foundation has been re-written from scratch to match their new layout.
--Google Code collector has been re-written to fix a few bugs (still running)
--Launchpad has been finished and will be re-written for June to fix bugs
--Alioth is being re-written to fix bugs

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February Github data released

February data has been released for Github.

Get the data here from our Google Code downloads page or request direct database access here.

Included with Github data are the following values:
project name
developer name
description
private yes/no
fork number
homepage
number of watchers
open issues
...and all the xml values that these fields are based on!

Have fun!

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January 2012 releases

We're cruising ahead with January 2012 releases. Grab the data from Google Code site or from the teragrid.

Freecode - done (formerly known as Freshmeat)
Savannah - done
Tigris - done
Rubyforge - done
Objectweb - done
Launchpad - done

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November 2011 data entered

Here is the status of the November 2011 collection:

done & ready to download on Google Code or query in Teragrid...
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RUBYFORGE
OBJECTWEB
TIGRIS
LAUNCHPAD
SAVANNAH
ALIOTH
GITHUB

still collecting...
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GOOGLE

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June Data: Google Code, Launchpad, Github

Summer is a beautiful thing. Moles, we've got a huge Google Code release for you (ds=271), and the re-vamped Launchpad (ds=272), and also Github (ds=273).

Get your FRESH June data on our Google Code Downloads Page or LIVE on the Teragrid.

Tigris is fixed and is running right now. We're also writing a new collector for Alioth! Lots of new stuff.

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Github data released for May 2010

Data has been released for Github for May 2010. It is on our FLOSSmole Google Code downloads page.

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February 2010 Data Released

Lots of new data for you to peruse out on our FLOSSmole Data Downloads Page.

Here's what's out there, recently added:

Google Code, March 2010 (GC) - list of all GC projects donated by Audris Mockus (HUGE THANK YOU TO AUDRIS FOR THIS!!)
Freshmeat, February 2010 (FM)
Objectweb, February 2010 (OW)
Rubyforge, February 2010 (RF)
Github, February 2010 (GH)
Free Software Foundation, February 2010 (FSF)
Savannah, February 2010 (SV)
and Sourceforge from December 2009 (SF)

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December 2009 data released

December data has been released for the following forges:

(datasource-abbreviation-full name)
200-fm-freshmeat
201-rf-rubyforge
202-ow-objectweb
203-fsf-free software foundation
204-sv-savannah
205-gh-github

Sourceforge is in progress... it will be datasource_id=206.

Get the data here:
http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list

Remember that the files marked "DM" are SQL files (mysql) but the files marked .txt are flat text files (delimited)

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November 2009 data released

This month we have data from Freshmeat, Rubyforge, Objectweb, Savannah, Github, Free Software Foundation.

Downloads available at Google Code

Remember, the SQL is available in the datamart*.sql.bz files, the flat (delimited) data is available in the other files.

We're still working on getting our Sourceforge scraper back up and running, and we thank you for your patience.

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