Re: random idea- cvs overviews for gnome journal?

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:50:00PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
>> Would it make sense to do a monthly (or weekly) review of cvs-commits
>> traffic to get the highlights out into gnome-journal (and hence the
>> public) and to provide sources for feature lists for the release notes?
>>
>
> I'll leave that to Jim since he's the editor. :-)  I suspect that he'd
> be happy to accomdate it if someone will do the work.
>
>> This would be potentially be a high-dedication but high-reward project
>> for someone. It could also be broken up by module into tasks for several
>> people, if they wanted to.
>
> Does Subversion have good metadata that we could do to make this easier?
> Maybe a good driver towards using Subversion (like KDE is moving towards)
> for all this.  Because it does seem like a lot of work.  A good project
> for someone who has good skills in XML stuff I think.
>
> I still get the cvs commit summaries, but they are just stats
> about who are the top committers, and what module was the most active
> it doesn't provide a lot of detail unfortunately.  I could follow up
> on it if people want me to and see how it gets generated.

Surely if you want to see what's happened to a module over a certain
amount of time, you should just look at the ChangeLog, or NEWS if it's
being updated. Maybe a script could do a diff on all NEWS files between a
new checkout and one from a month ago.

Murray Cumming
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