On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Paul Johnson
If you go to http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?l0=haskell&measure=projects and look at the number (not percentage) of Haskell projects you see it rise exponentially until the start of 2008 and then suddenly drop away. Does anyone know what happened? Assuming this is just an artefact because they aren't scanning Haskell project hosts, can we get them to fix it?
I believe in early 2008 Don Stewart was on a kick where he used tailor to convert Darcs repos of Haskell projects to Git repos (which Ohloh understands), and he's stopped doing that. The fix would involve making their software understand darcs; their response hasn't been too enthusiastic or helpful (basically, 'if you guys do all the work and meet our idiosyncratic standards, maybe we'll use it'): http://www.ohloh.net/forums/3491/topics/1138?page=2
I'd like to use this kind of graph at work as evidence that Haskell is on a growth trajectory.
Paul.
-- gwern