Open Source tracking tool Ohloh is set to become an open source. That’s open sourcing twice over!

Ohloh is now opening its tracking and ranking tools and making it available for developers to use it and develop similar tools. The open source directory being tracked and maintained by Ohloh is already available for a large number of people in the Internet. By taking another step further in the open source world, Ohloh enables others to track other open source coder teams.

Through this move, the similarity between Ohloh and Slife has been noted by some. After all, both tools can track work done related in team settings. Ohloh is also set to launch another tool, Ohcount, which monitors lines of source code and analyzes them. Ohcount then will become a command line tool and library. What Ohcount does in the longer term is to track the code lines contributed by developers. Through this, the level of output of a web developer can be tracked more effectively.

An astounding 35 languages can be supported by Ohcount. This includes Java, C and C++, HTML, and XML among others. Developers can now readily look at the level of their outputs and check with each other their progress in completing a project.

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