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Gource - software version control visualization

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Maybe I'm just in a giddy mood because it's a New Year and I'm feeling optimistic.

But I think Gources are FUCKING AWESOME.

Watching the evolution of the STUFF WE LIVE TO BUILD while some energetic music plays in the background is JUST FREAKIN COOL.

Sometimes, it is just the simple things that bring so much joy.

You are DEFINITELY in a giddy mood.

Someone needs to build an online Gource viewer: give it a repo URL and get your video rendered and streamed back to you.

Look like you just give me new idea for my weekend project. Nice.

The biggest problem (or not ... for some I guess) is that it requires a ton of CPU time/graphics power to render. It is not something that you throw onto a server, it needs X11 and it needs a graphics card that can run the OpenGL stuff easily.

So who's up for an emscripten port leveraging WebGL?

If I were in a startup, and we'd grown and grown, and we'd reached a certain milestone (e.g. Instagram selling for a billion dollars), I would make a Gource of the repository and have it displayed on screens at the office party.

gources are a cool deliverable for end of sprints. I do them on occasion at my day job.

Gource is not new at all but it's damn cool.

This made my day.

I need an electric sheep style screensaver for my watched repositories.

I just made one for my project, it's beautiful.

Office World Development Visualisation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYM-u5f8zs

I've got this running at yahoo! showing openstack code, great stuff!

check out youtube, there are plenty of gource videos

A year ago I made a video of 6 years of development in my company and all the techies were so happy seeing the code grow and change :)

Where's the music in these videos come from?

Don't know the origin of this particular music but you can find a lot of quite freely licensed music on jamendo.com.

(Haven't read on the licensing, I'm only using it as a source of music for work, not artwork.)

You could just put on your screensaver as the way the information is presented is useless. Looks cool though. Just like my screensaver. Not quite as nice.

Running Gource on the Linux Kernel repos is the best thing, easily.

Someone already created it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY

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