Tag: activity
I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ‘emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time… until recently. So here it is.
It is available for download from the homepage and as a mercurial clone.
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to play with. This is why I have introduced a new frontend, based on Qt, to play/decide about those options.
First, let me issue a very strong statement: this is optional and it is still possible to use the extension in an desktop-less environment (aka a server). This is an important point as many people, including myself, use the extension to provide activity information on some html page, maybe even integrating with the mercurial web interface.
So how does it work ? The extension now has a new option –mode. There are currently three possible values:
This looks like this:
You’ll notice that the bottom of the window contains the corresponding command line, that you can copy/paste.
Last thing: the extension is now a python module, and as such, the way you configure the extension in your ~/.hgrc has slightly changed. Instead of having
activity=/home/orzel/hg/hgactivity/activity.py
you should now have
activity=/home/orzel/hg/hgactivity/activity
Today i have added a feature to my hg activity extension. I have wanted to have this for long : the tags are now displayed on the graph. Here are two examples, one of the project itself, and another one on the mercurial repository, but only for the last months.
The first one was generated by:
hg activity --splitauthors --maxauthors 5 --width 1500 --height 900
And the second one by:
hg activity --datemin 2008-01-01 --splitauthors --maxauthors 5 --width 1500 --height 900
Really, I seem to be fond of activity graphs those days. I have reused part of this previous code, but this time I parse the emerge log file to display the activity of your successful emerges. Think of it as a graphical view of ‘genlop -l’.
Those examples are the emerge activity of my two main computers.
The current code does the bare minimum, and I need to add at least command line options for
The usage is straightforward:
orzel@berlioz EmergeActivity% ./EmergeActivity.py
There are 9896 emerge completed successfully
Created the file 'activity.png'
orzel@berlioz EmergeActivity% xv activity.png &
You can grab the source (browse, tarballs, mercurial clone, even RSS) from :
http://sources.freehackers.org/EmergeActivity/
While developing my recently released activity mercurial extension (and here too), I did a lot of tests on some quite famous/big projects. I’ve found the results to be quite interesting and decided to put up this gallery. Are you interested in the history of commits for kde, linux, django, portage(software), and others?
warning : this is just for fun (copyright Linus Torvalds), I’m perfectly aware that the number of commits is a very bad indicator for development.
The gallery : http://labs.freehackers.org/projects/hgactivity/wiki/Gallery
Today I have added new options to the mercurial activity extension and most importantly, it is now possible to have a different curve for each author. It looks like this :
This is something i’ve really been missing for long in mercurial : a way to display the activity of a repository. No, ‘hg churn’ is not the right answer, I want an idea of when the peaks of development happened. So I have written this small extension. It is based on matplotlib, so you’ll need that to be installed. It is tested with mercurial 1.0.2 and the current development version of mercurial (so-called mercurial ‘crew’ repository). I’m a big fan of this kind of information, and I’m sure to use this extension regularly, so you can count on it being maintained.
To use is, grab a copy :
hg clone http://sources.freehackers.org/hgactivity/
and add a line in your ~/.hgrc under [extensions] with the full path to the activity.py (example on my computer, please adapt to your actual path:)
activity=/home/orzel/hg/hgactivity/activity.py
To use it, just do from inside a repository:
hg activity
The first example shows the activity for the mercurial.crew repository, and here’s another one representing the activity of the the ‘kdebase’ module from kde (I have a local mercurial mirror):
Activity of kdebase during the last month
Homepage of the project: http://labs.freehackers.org/wiki/hgactivity
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