Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Projects/CodeSwarm

Timestamp:

11/19/11 20:24:02 (12 years ago)

Author:

JoelSherrill

Comment:

Projects/CodeSwarm

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 [http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/ Code Swarm] is a FOSS project whose goal is to provide visualization of source code revision histories.  In simpler terms, using Code Swarm, one can create a video showing the commit history of a project.  
 
-[wiki:TBR/User/JoelSherrill JoelSherrill] has created a Code Swarm video for RTEMS and has left some details of turning the raw Code Swarm output into a more meaningful video as tasks for students participating in [http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2011-12/index.html Google Code-in 2011].  These tasks are:
+[wiki:TBR/User/JoelSherrill JoelSherrill] has created a Code Swarm video for RTEMS and has left some details of turning the raw Code Swarm output into a more meaningful video as tasks for students participating in [http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2011-12/index.html Google Code-in 2011].  These tasks to get from the where we are to what we think would be a nice video are:
 
  *  Produce a list of "interesting times" in the video which show high activity or interesting patterns.  
+ *  Produce a list of committers
+ *  Each committer can have an avatar in the video. It would be interesting to not use the default avatars.  To do this, we will need an avatar per committer.
  *  An RTEMS developer will provide a description of the activity at each "interesting time"
  *  Add an introduction to the video consisting of at least
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 The Code Swarm video and a file containing the generated frames that comprise the video are available on the RTEMS FTP site which is accessible via [ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/joel/codeswarm ftp] or [http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/people/joel/codeswarm HTTP].
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+It takes approximately 20 minutes to generate the frames and about 4 minutes to make an AVI file.
+= Committers =
+
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+The following user ids are present in the Code Swarm output:
+
+ *  joel - Joel Sherrill
+ *  ccj - Chris Johns
 = Interesting Times in Video =
 
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-Instructions for converting the 12,000 frames that are in individual PNG files are at http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/wiki/GeneratingAVideo.  The instructions use mencoder and various support libraries.
+Instructions for converting the 12,000 frames that are in individual PNG files are at http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/wiki/GeneratingAVideo.  The instructions use mencoder and various support libraries.  I used the following command to generate the AVI file:
+
+{{{
+mencoder mf://code_swarm_frames/*.png -mf fps=24:type=png -ovc lavc -oac copy -o movie.avi
+}}}
 = Credits =