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Watch Open Source Development in Real Time

Posted by timothy on from the time-lapse-photography dept.

Mohammed Al-Sahaf writes "If you use FreeNode, be sure to check out #commits, where they have a bot watching the CVS/Subversion repositories of a number of major Open Source projects (including GNOME, KDE and Python). Its fascinating to be able to watch development as it occurs all over the Open Source world. If you have a project of your own that uses CVS, you can add yourself to the bot. Also, the stats page makes interesting viewing!"

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  1. Geesh... by FroMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems like most of the comments here are pretty derogatory.

    I think this sounds pretty cool. I checked out the site that was linked and thought it was pretty cool. Sure, its not Buffy or whatever crap people watch on TV all the time, but its a pretty cool hack.

    I personally think its neat to be able to look up stats like that.

    Another fun stat to look at is on gentoo.org. You can see some of their bugzilla stats, like how many bugs and of what type.

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  2. Re:Why this is cool by Tukla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah. It's not cool until the commits automatically download themselves to my PC and recompile the affected software in the background. I want my software updated at random intervals to the most bleeding-edge version possible! Mwah-ha-ha-hahaha!