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Gource - software version control visualization

89 points by giis 14y ago

charlieflowers 14y ago
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.
- mserdarsanli 14y ago
  You are DEFINITELY in a giddy mood.
johncoltrane 14y ago
Gource is not new at all but it's damn cool.
lucian303 14y ago
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.
alkavan 14y ago
search youtube for "gource+virtulization" http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource+virtulization http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource+virtuliza... nice stuff.
paranoiacblack 14y ago
Running Gource on the Linux Kernel repos is the best thing, easily.
- giis 14y ago
  Someone already created it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY
barbs 14y ago
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.
- tbatterii 14y ago
  gources are a cool deliverable for end of sprints. I do them on occasion at my day job.
damniatx 14y ago
I just made one for my project, it's beautiful. Office World Development Visualisation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYM-u5f8zs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYM-u5f8zs
MasterScrat 14y ago
Someone needs to build an online Gource viewer: give it a repo URL and get your video rendered and streamed back to you.
- damniatx 14y ago
  Look like you just give me new idea for my weekend project. Nice.
  - X-Istence 14y ago
    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.
    - Bjartr 14y ago
      So who's up for an emscripten port leveraging WebGL?
johnbellone 14y ago
This made my day. I need an electric sheep style screensaver for my watched repositories.
DrSlump 14y ago
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 :)
harlowja 14y ago
I've got this running at yahoo! showing openstack code, great stuff!
warmfuzzykitten 14y ago
Where's the music in these videos come from?
- eitland 14y ago
  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.)

89 points by giis 14y ago

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.

mserdarsanli 14y ago
You are DEFINITELY in a giddy mood.

johncoltrane 14y ago

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

lucian303 14y ago

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.

alkavan 14y ago

search youtube for "gource+virtulization" http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource+virtulization http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gource+virtuliza... nice stuff.

paranoiacblack 14y ago

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

giis 14y ago
Someone already created it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSqctHH9vY

barbs 14y ago

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.

tbatterii 14y ago
gources are a cool deliverable for end of sprints. I do them on occasion at my day job.

damniatx 14y ago

I just made one for my project, it's beautiful. Office World Development Visualisation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYM-u5f8zs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYM-u5f8zs

MasterScrat 14y ago

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

damniatx 14y ago
Look like you just give me new idea for my weekend project. Nice.
- X-Istence 14y ago
  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.
  - Bjartr 14y ago
    So who's up for an emscripten port leveraging WebGL?

johnbellone 14y ago

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

DrSlump 14y ago

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 :)

harlowja 14y ago

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

warmfuzzykitten 14y ago

Where's the music in these videos come from?

eitland 14y ago
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.)