Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:18:06 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: petefrench@ticketswitch.com (Pete French) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, lab@gta.com Subject: Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms Message-ID: <201001051718.o05HI6re003544@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <E1NPxS1-000Hfa-Qs@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Pete French wrote: > > By the way, here is another little tool that can be used to > > watch changes in 8-stable conveniently: > > > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8/sys > > Have you seen Fresh BSD ? It does a very similary thing except > it's not just restricted to FreeBSD. For example to track RELENG_8... > > http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=freebsd > > meanwhile, over at Dragonfly... > > http://www.freshbsd.org/?project=dfbsd No, I haven't seen it before. But it looks very similar (almost identical) to freshsource.org, which I knew before. In fact I decided to create SVNews when I saw freshsource because I wanted something that displayed more information on one page, but in a much more compact and useful (IMHO) way. Another reason was that I wanted to exploit the advantages of using the SVN protocol directly: SVNews accesses the SVN server itself, so there's almost no delay between a commit and its arrival on the SVNews page. On the other hand, freshsource (and apparently freshbsd, too) tries to parse the e-mail messages generated from commits. This is sub-optimal, in my opinion. Last but not least, I was curious how difficult it would be to write an SVN protocol application in Python. I found out that it is trivial. :-) It's true, freshbsd supports other projects besides FreeBSD. Most other projects don't use SVN, so SVNews focuses on FreeBSD (which is my main interest anyway). On the other hand, SVNews also displays commits outside of the main src tree, such as commits to the vendors, users and projects branches. freshbsd doesn't display those at all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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