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I do.
If Wikipedia can be the world's most popular website with potential for million dollars revenue and yet its software is Free sftwares, than Ohloh will do fine if their source code are also free.
I don't. Browse the projects here and you might agree that the last thing the open source world needs is a couple thousand more lines of tweaky CSS, ratings widgets, and Rails spaghetti.
To the extent that Ohloh has advanced open source technologies it's a reasonable request to ask them to document and publish these changes. And if and when deeper stats become available, it's certainly reasonable to ask for detailed mechanics of how the numbers are computed. (At that point, given the algorithms, it's hard to argue the calculation code itself has great competitive value.)
But to ask them to hand out an ohloh.net construction kit
? That's just silly.
You don't have to offer a Ohloh construction kit.
You can just let Ohloh SVN be available to the public.
That way people who want to contribute to Ohloh's codebase can.
And if Ohloh as a business goes down, someone can setup a ohloh server as a replacement.
The site has a front end which displays the data. Asking for the source code to the website frontend seems a little odd. It doesn't seem like a great candidate for open source. Feels like a smart but small crew at Ohloh and not the type of place that can have a guy sitting around reviewing community supplied javascript widgets and testing them across the site and prioritizing and integrating them.
There's also a backend which collects the data. That seems like a nightmare to keep running and again, I don't see how running community supplied bash and Perl scripts on their server farm improves things in the short term.
Now, the statistics? Yes, I see value there. I'd like to see clear documentation of how all that works. I'd like to have an API for accessing the data. And I'd like to see the code and possibly even submit my own stuff. If they don't do this, sooner or later Linus will spend a couple days hacking it into Git.
But this give us full access to your source tree
stuff -- that's just naive.