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Badge request: OpenHub

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#4480 opened on Dec 29, 2019

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Description

:clipboard: Description

Please provide badges for OpenHub, because the provided badges from OpenHub do not fit among other badges (from Shields.io) in README files.

Open Hub is a statistics website, that scans registered open source projects e.g. on GitHub and creates global statistics per user and project. E.g. it aggregates all commits a person has ever done in any repository. It indexes 495k repositories and counts 4.9 million contributors.

Link: https://www.openhub.net/

Example badges from Open Hub:

What could be done by Shields.io?

  • Open Hub | rank 7
  • Open Hub | 1059 commits

Doing more:

  • per user
    • active since / first commit
    • total commits
    • most recent commit
    • contributed to X projects
  • per project
    • years of effort (based on COCOMO)
    • estimated project value in USD (based on COCOMO)
    • most used language per project

:link: Data

Further resources:

:microphone: Motivation

  • The provided badges from OpenHub do not fit among other badges in README files.
  • FOSS contributors might want to publish their aggregated statistics gathered from multiple repositories and repository platforms on personal websites or profile sites.

Contributor guide

Tech stack
javascriptnodejs
Domain
content
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
JavaScriptNode.js
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
60
Research direction
Explore the OpenHub API documentation at https://github.com/blackducksoftware/ohloh api to understand available endpoints and data formats. Review existing badge implementations in the shields repository (e.g., similar static badges) to understand the pattern for adding new badges. Consider starting with a simple badge like 'OpenHub rank' to understand the integration flow.