Re: code swarm video
On Friday 15 May 2009, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:36:36AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Very nice Joey. Can we include that on CD1 and play it as background
> > during installs?
>
> Nearly a third of CD1 ;-)
Yeah, I did not think I needed to add a smiley for that :-)
> > Pity about the green monster eating all names of translators (and
> > developers) a few times. OTOH, it does nicely blot out Christian's
> > nick most of the time ;-)
>
> Not to run down our fantastic translators, but just out of curiosity
> could we get a version with translations filtered out so that we can
> see other development activity post-2003 or so as well?
That's in the pipeline. I've done some work on that and sent the info to
Joey. I've basically removed all automated l10n-sync commits, both for
components and the manual, and some selected other commits (related to
CVS->SVN conversion for example); in total 5254 commits, including all
the really HUGE ones, get removed).
Only part of 2004 remains really cluttered, but that's simply because
there was a huge amount of development and translations going on.
Other advantage is that it cuts down a lot on the time to generate the
frames for the video. Joey was talking about over a day; with the cleanup
I can now generate the frames for the full history in 50 minutes on my
laptop...
I've also tried two other changes that turned out to help a lot:
- increase frame size from 640x480 to 800x600; this moves the history
graph away to the left a bit
- use 'EdgeLength=45'; this increases the distance between names and files
(the diameter of the circle around names)
I'd provide a video myself, but have problems generating one with
sufficient quality (mencode output sucks and ffmpeg segfaults on me).
And there is a weird bug in the code which really changes how the result
looks: http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/issues/detail?id=61
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