[Haskell-cafe] What happened in Ohloh?

[Don Stewart]

paul:
> 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?

They aren't scanning darcs repos, and I stopped doing nightly cron job
conversions from git to darcs.

In that time, the number of haskell projects has grown fairly rapidly:
    
    http://galois.com/~dons/images/hackage-daily-graph.png

(daily upload moving average). It took off in 2008.

-- Don