Years ago I was a man of many hats at a startup. One of my hats was build and release guy. We had a demo day for investors and I was like “what the heck do I show them?”
A Gource generated movie of the startup’s main repo saved the day. :-)
The project is a bit undocumented but the configuration offers a lot of possibilities. I'd recommend iterating with various config settings with `--load-config gource.conf`
Gource is incredibly powerful, but it does take a bit of playing around with all of the config options available to get your results just right.
I put together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYJAWWZ2jQ for OctoberCMS, an open source content management framework that's been steadily gaining in popularity for the past four years.
This is so incredibly entertaining to use. Although you have to have a fair number of active daily contributors for it to actually be interesting to watch.
On that note, I once saw it being (ab)used to visualize activity on a phpBB. I think they mapped threads to files and posts to commits or something like that. Interesting idea and I was wondering if you could apply it to other things as well.
We put the end visualisation on our team shirts. Unfortunately due to printing limitations it didn't end up looking that good, but it's still a neat idea.
A Gource generated movie of the startup’s main repo saved the day. :-)
Edit: oh wait, it was probably codeswarm:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221601