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I have been a long-time fan of Source Control Management (SCM) reporting tools such as the StatCVS. The Fundanemt project has for many years - and so have many of my university projects - had a StatCVS installation running to keep track of development progress.

I have updated the Fundanemt installation of StatCVS from time to time to get some of the new features that the StatCVS development team cook up. Today I decided to have a look at the newest release (0.2.4a), that (since the 0.2-dev) contains support for displaying tags on the timeline graphs.

The new graphs clearly show that it has been way too long since the last release of Fundanemt - even though we have fixed many bugs (30 + lots of untracked bugs) and developed new features. Lets hope the new year as well as the release of some upcoming cool modules and core features will result in a couple of new releases.

Although StatCVS is a cool piece of software, it unfortunately does not support SVN (guess the name explains why), and since we have used SVN for the Fundanemt 3 prototype, and the last couple of university projects we have lacked a serious alternative to StatCVS. Today I also stumpled upon StatSVN that is a fork of the StatCVS project (they are apparently working on merging again) with a new backend handling SVN repositories. The StatSVN is much slower for generating the report, due to the SVN log entries missing information on what changes were made between two revisions - information needed by StatSVN and StatCVS to create those cool graphs we all love. The generation of revision-diffs should be a one-time deal, since they are cached, and should not cause any huge delays for hourly or daily reports where most of the repository has already been cached. Maybe this would be a lot faster if run locally on the SVN repository host - unfortunately this is not always possible :-(

In the near future I will upgrade the StatCVS and StatSVN installations, since the current development versions contain some cool features that would be cool to have.

• File type reporting - this page give a list of the different file types. Very usable to determine if still have a lot of .inc or .class files around.
• Developer of the month table - A small table on the "authors" (now renamed to "developers") page, listing what developer has been most active each month.

Now if only I could get integration with the Mantis bugtracker used by the Fundanemt project - guess I will have to hack one my self.

Happy new years!