[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: New savannah site

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

(Fw'ing to savannah-hackers-public)

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Henrik Sandklef wrote:
> hi
> 
>  is there a place to discuss new features for next savannah*?

Not specifically, but that would be a good thing to do.
savannah-hackers-public would be a good place to discuss meanwhile.


>  for me it would be super cool to have RSS feeds from 'everything':
>  * VCS (svn, cvs, bazaar**, mercurial, git** .....)
>  * bug reported  (including change of status)
>  * tasks (including change of status)
> 
>  this can be used to get a good overview of the activity of a
> project, be it the entire GNU project or just a small project. Jose,
> Nacho, Rikard (who may met in Gothenburg) wrote a small software
> that tries to compile feeds into "an extended planet".

For VCSes, I'm not sure that Savane is the place to add this.  I see
Savane as a super-glue that binds various tools together - instead of
a monolithic all-integrated bloatware that would be impossible to
maintain (which is what the competition tends to become).

For the trackers, this sound like a good idea.


> BTW, I wrote (well, adapted) a small script that scrapes the MLs at GNU:
>    http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/ml-rss/lists-gnu-org/index.html
>    (uh oh, i am not a web designer)
>  I am using that and some other feeds for the site:
>     http://planet.gnu.org/fnossplanet/sites/gnu/

Btw, I'd like to know if you did any work on the privacy matters that
are related to scrapping.

AFAIU, you're working in this field as part of your thesis, and other
people/companies in the world also work on this.  This allows to get
data on projects, which I think is fine, but also on individuals,
which I think is a problem.  For example one is easily able to compute
the average work hours (and more generally work habits) of a specific
developer.

Previously I felt somehow protected by 1) the amont of noise around
the traces I produce, making it hard to gather them and 2) the fact
that digging such traces and showing them off would amount to voyerism
and would be (dis)considered as such.  With the development of
scrapping technologies, these protections are destroyed, so is there
any progress on re-improving privacy?

E.g. (wild idea) one could use a git frontend that would reset all the
commit hours to 'this morning, midnight', which wouldn't affect the
stats, but avoid leaking privacy info.


> /hesa
> 
> 
> *) yes, I am referring to the installation of the software ;)
> **) exists already

-- 
Sylvain

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