Watch Open Source Development in Real Time

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!"

Comments

Why this is cool

[IamTheRealMike]

OK. So this is cool because:

1) It means you can be impressed (and impress others, if they are that way inclined) with the pace and volume of open source development.

2) There are 100 people in the channel from all kinds of projects, ranging from GNOME to bzFlag, all chilling out (there will soon be a #commits-only for those who for whatever reason don't like the chatter).

3) It's a neat hack that took about 2 hours to do, and took off in a big way.

For all you people saying "that's so pointless" you don't get it, it's not meant to be an informational resource. It's not even meant to be useful. It's just meant to be cool :)

(i helped set it up though so i would say that)

Re:Why this is cool

[JukkaO]

1) It means you can be impressed (and impress others, if they are that way inclined) with the pace and volume of open source development.

Pace and volume indeed :) 20 minutes and not a single commit. With the amount of projects the bot tracks, how long should I statistically need to wait until I see a commit?

I'm guessing the activity may also come in bursts due to timezone things and such, just want to try it out anyway. :)

Can someone explain to me..

[Anonymous Coward]

How can users not affiliated with this project have such a bot? Do you have to be the project admin to approve the use of this bot on a different irc network such as Efnet? The documentation doesn't cover it on the site.

Assuming I have a remote shell account and a bot, and would like one of my bots to display the Mozilla commits.. how would I do that?

Thanks in advance.

stats page

[Khopesh]

i don't see use in realtime irc reporting, but the stats page is interesting.
i only wish it were more informative;
quantity would be better served by icons or even colors;
the more active are brighter and the less active duller.
i would like to see "average day in past week/month/year" as a ratio comparing to total,
so for example the entry for week could read "19:133"
meaning there were 19 commits in the average day last week.
this would better show changes in activity.