SourceForge, the company behind the popular code hosting service, has announced plans to acquire Ohloh. The acquisition is part of a broader effort to renew the relevance of SourceForge and bring greater value to the website’s users.
Ohloh is a social network for open source software communities. It analyzes the source code in remote version control systems in order to collect data about software and programmers. Users can set up profiles at the site which will aggregate all of the information collected by Ohloh about their participation in open source software projects. The site aims to provide useful metrics about a multitude of open source software projects and makes it easier for participants to find each other and interact.
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