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diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..54bd0eff --- /dev/null +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/2008-07-12-codeswarm-movies-for-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Today (OK, this night) I created some codeswarm movies to visualize the code history of the Hurd. + +What's particularly interesting to me in gnumach is the tschwinge - sthibaul effect in march 2008, where development suddenly seems to speed up enormeously. + +It clearly shows how much impact just two developers can have - you can have that kind of an impact, too! + +The code movies are created from the history of the cvs branches gnumach, hurd-l4 and +hurd. + +The movies: + + - [Gnumach](http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/gnumach_code_evolution.avi) + + - [Hurd](http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/gnu_hurd_code_evolution_1_min.avi) + + - [Hurd L4](http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/hurd-l4.avi) + + - [Hurd wiki](http://draketo.de/filme/codeswarm/hurd_wiki.avi) + +in gnumach, red is the "kern", while in "hurd" red is stuff in "release". + +.*doc.* is dark blue and any stuff named .*linux.* is shown in a blue-green in +both. In Hurd-L4 is annotated: It shows libc, gcc, Hurd and L4 kernel commits in +different colors. + +The hurd wiki movie shows all web commits as "web-hurd@gnu.org", and you can clearly see that most changes are being done via the version control system. There's a way to split the web-commits, but since there aren't many, I leave that for another day :) - [article on the ikiwiki page](http://ikiwiki.info/news/code_swarm/). + +Best wishes, +Arne |