On Apr 30, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Johan Sundström wrote: > I've crafted a CVS checkins browser in Exhibit, which shows checkins > to the Pike programming language: > > http://exhibit.ecmanaut.googlepages.com/cvsview.html
Neat. I like the "Usage" view; a great idea in general. A link to the code might trigger helping hands. One of the places in the open source work flow that is under appreciated is the value added by the contributors who read the commit stream. Tapping the pool of talent better would be sweet; faceting, visualization, queries can help. Think RSS feeds on queries on the transaction stream filtered by facet'd queries :). I love a hack like this that creates a bloom of ideas for things that could be. Verbalizing such ideas always seems a bit silly, but yeah? who can resist. I suspect it would be cheap to add the files touched as a facet. I've always wanted a measure of how long it's been since a file has been touched - by anybody, by the committer in question. Then there is the 'dust has settled' facet that shows was touched recently, but not in the last n days. SVN has easily extended metadata on the individual files. Then, of course, there is social tagging and hot-or-not for files; but that's just silly. :) - ben _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
