Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/12/2013 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: What I would further like to do is reach out to my journalist contacts of yore Sure, that would be appreciated. You needn't have any formal appointment from the project in order to approach journalists and provide them with up-do-date, accurate informat

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 12/3/13 3:56 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 03-Dec-2013, at 09:14, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts >> wrote: >>> On 2 December 2013 13:24, Rob Weir wrote: Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their service. The

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-03 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 03-Dec-2013, at 09:14, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts > wrote: >> On 2 December 2013 13:24, Rob Weir wrote: >>> Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their >>> service. The fault lies with those who take such numbers and do false

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > On 2 December 2013 13:24, Rob Weir wrote: >> Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their >> service. The fault lies with those who take such numbers and do false >> comparisons. This is intellectually dishonest an

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-02 Thread Andre Fischer
On 02.12.2013 19:24, Rob Weir wrote: You've probably seen various social media posts, blogs, articles, etc., purporting to compare AOO and LO via commit statistics. If you poke a little you see that these are almost always derived from Ohloh. You can see our numbers here: https://www.ohloh.ne

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Top posting. > Thanks for this explanation! > It will indeed help to temper some of the claims about these numbers. > > Hagar > Indeed, thank you! Who knew? > > > Le 02/12/2013 19:24, Rob Weir a écrit : > > > You've probably seen various s

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2 December 2013 13:24, Rob Weir wrote: > Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their > service. The fault lies with those who take such numbers and do false > comparisons. This is intellectually dishonest and I think we should > point this out wherever we see it. > > Reg

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-02 Thread Hagar Delest
Top posting. Thanks for this explanation! It will indeed help to temper some of the claims about these numbers. Hagar Le 02/12/2013 19:24, Rob Weir a écrit : You've probably seen various social media posts, blogs, articles, etc., purporting to compare AOO and LO via commit statistics. If you

AOO and Ohloh stats

2013-12-02 Thread Rob Weir
You've probably seen various social media posts, blogs, articles, etc., purporting to compare AOO and LO via commit statistics. If you poke a little you see that these are almost always derived from Ohloh. You can see our numbers here: https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice It is important to keep