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Neil Bartlett: “StatSVN helps startups get funded”
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 … Continue reading
Ohloh: an open source directory
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, … Continue reading
StatCVS v0.3
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 … Continue reading
StatCVS v0.2.4a released
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 … Continue reading
StatSVN
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 … Continue reading
StatCVS v0.2.3 released
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 … Continue reading
Bill Siggelkow on StatCVS
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 … Continue reading
Analysing multiple CVS modules with StatCVS
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 … Continue reading
On counting lines of code
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent.” —Edsger Dijkstra
Sparklines for the SourceForge stats feeds
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 … Continue reading