Open Source projects ranked by awesomeness

<i>Ever wondered what projects are developed by the best kick ass hackers?</i><p>Reads more like a list of the most well-known brogrammers to me.

Fun fact: open source projects that host their own repos are categorically not awesome.

Linux just barely squeaks by in the top 100 at 99.<p>Other well known open source projects and their ranks:<p>asterisk: 16286<p>nginx: 13540<p>emacs: 2447<p>vim: 2618<p>a github page with somebody's vim configuration: 2068<p>clang: 2315<p>busybox: 11186<p>gcc: Not listed except for some ps3 ports aroynd 12k<p>Well we now know that emacs is more awesome than vim, but vim's configuration format is more awesome than either.

ohloh.net has been at this for a number of years. I've found it a useful way to make sure an open source project has enough lasting momentum before I start to rely on it.<p>See also: <a href="https://github.com/mmcgrana/gitcred" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mmcgrana/gitcred</a>

In order to be awesome you have to register, wtf? I think this is proof that RMS is the awesomest.

It's curious to see ruby on top of the leaderbord. I guess it's because your main source it's github, am I right? Anyway, It's a nice way to find newer projects.

A very nice list of projects to avoid. Well done.

the rails documentation branch at #1? apache maven? i think their algorithm needs a bit more tuning

It's a very interesting way to rank open source projects and see who are the contributors :)<p>Good way to find new projects to contribute too

Any list which doesn't have Linux, Apache, and Asterisk near the top = automatic fail.

Looks very cool - do you normalize based on the number of developers per project?

Great idea. I develop many projects that are non-public and this is a nice way to get publicly credit for them as well. I guess that there are many people out there who don't actively contribute to open-source, but are still great developers.

very cool!