Neil Batlett has an interesting take on StatSVN and StatCVS: One problem that startup companies often have is demonstrating to investors that they’re actually doing something productive rather than just pouring away money on office plants, Herman Miller chairs, and playing foosball all day. … One thing you can do is show the evolution [...]
Recently I came across ohloh.net, a Web 2.0-ish directory of open source projects. It seems to aggregate information from at least SourceForge, Freshmeat, user-provided RSS feeds, and possibly other sources. The most interesting aspect: To gather information about a project, Ohloh also connects to its CVS repository and displays statistical and historical information about the project’s [...]
It’s a new year, and that’s always a good time for releasing software. StatCVS is now at v0.3. The main new feature is a cleaner look for the reports (example). The commit log has been redesigned and now features permalinks for all commits (example). There are also a couple of new reports and tables, such as [...]
The latest release of StatCVS shares a common codebase with the new StatSVN and adds some neat new features: Bugzilla integration (will turn “Bug 1234†in commit messages into klickable links) ViewVC integration XDoc output for integration in Maven-generated project sites All work on this version has been done by Benoit Xhenseval and Jason Kealey of StatSVN. Thanks, guys!
StatSVN has had its first public release. It’s a port of our venerable StatCVS statistics tool to Subversion. Cool! It’s being developed by Jean-Philippe Daigle, Jason Kealey, and Gunter Mussbacher. We considered Subversion support, but Subversion doesn’t include the all-important lines of code numbers in its logfiles. Tammo and Steffen even put together a patch for [...]
StatCVS has been almost dormant for two years. Today (and after much prodding from Dave Gilbert) I’ve packaged a new release. The most significant new feature is that CVS tags are now shown in all timelines. For example, in the StatCVS report for the project itself you can marvel at the amount of inactivity between the [...]
Bill Siggelkow: I was trying to figure out how to automate, in some fashion, the creation of release notes. My project is using CVS so I could get a dump of commit messages using cvs log. But the CVS log output is extremely verbose and certainly not suitable for management or other non-technical parties. Enter [...]
This just came up on the StatCVS mailing list and is worth a blog post. Sometimes you want to create a cumulative StatCVS report that summarizes multiple projects. This neat little trick works if they are all from the same repository. Just checkout the root module: cvs co . Running StatCVS on that will produce a nice [...]
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent.†—Edsger Dijkstra
Sparklines are small word-sized graphics that communicate lots of numbers in a small space. Here’s an example: Jena downloads are usually around 80 per day during the week, with slightly less on the weekends. After the 2.3 release on 12 Oct, they briefly rose to about 200 for a few days, then stabilized again [...]
A couple of days ago, I came across this fine paper by Keir Mierle et al. from U of Toronto: Mining Student CVS Repositories for Performance Indicators They examined the CVS repositories that their students used for assignments, extracted all sorts of numbers by analysing access patterns and code metrics, and correlated the numbers with the grades [...]
Every SourceForge project has a statistics page with the number of daily page views and downloads (example). Last year, I built a little screenscraper (page in German) that converted any project’s stats page into an RSS feed. But earlier this year, their statistics system frapped out and wasn’t since heard of. But now it’s fixed, and [...]
Glen Smith says nice things about StatCVS: It certainly passes the “Just Works” test - I was up and running in under 5 minutes - and the graphs it produces are really quite cool. I love stuff that “Just Works†and try hard to give my apps this quality. This is not always easy with Java apps [...]