Re: Events visualization via timeline
On 03/20/2012 11:32 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
Hi,
we from the OSAS team side want to develop ways to better visualize activity of a project
so that
people that come to the web page directly see activity and can start exploring.
For this purpose I started to set up a simile timeline[1] on ovirt.org at [2] (this is
not yet
integrated into any user reachable page).
In order to continue, I need to add a post-receive hook to the git repos, that is
creating a file, which
is basically a atom-feed of the commits, which then needs to be copied over to linode01
into
the timeline directory, so that browsers will read the timeline and the data from the
very same source
(to not violate the same origin policy).
Those atom feeds could also be offered in the activity page instead of the ones created
by gerrit/gitweb
on demand, which should nicely reduce the load on the gerrit box and increase the the
responsiveness
of those feeds.
Another addition to the time line would be a calendar to show events (see other mail).
is there another way (say, monitor this from the github mirrors)?
i generally prefer to not tailor commit hooks inside the gerrit git
instance to not make upgrades more complex (this is why we are waiting
on better email messages until this will be done via code, rather than
hook as well).
we may need to use hooks, but question is can we avoid them when possible.