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The full history of ViewSVN (2004-2007) is now public and hosted in a gitorious repository. Ohloh statistics are also available.

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gitstats has been packaged for Debian by Vincent Fourmond, and is now in unstable. As far as I know, this is the first of my projects that made it into Debian.

$ apt-cache search git statistics
gitstats - statistics generator for git repositories

So, who’s going to debianize ViewGit? Granted, it would be more work, but I think it would have more users too

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The DokuWiki piwik plugin has been updated to reflect the API changes made in Piwik 0.4. You only need to extract the new version over the old one to upgrade.

There’s no rush to upgrade as Piwik 0.4 is still compatible with the old tracking code.

Thanks to Konrad for requesting update!

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In a somewhat unexpected move (even to me), Encreecia is going be run using “Pay to Play” model in the future. What this means is that the players need to subscribe with a monthly payment – the amount is open at this point.

In the first stage, the aim is to cover costs for a dedicated server hosted by Nebula. If we can’t get enough subscribers to offset the costs, another possibility is selling in-game items and goods for the players. This model has been well-tested in various online games and should prove to be effective.

In the second stage, when the server costs are covered, the plan is to fund the development with the income. This includes graphics artists, background music composers, UI designers, etc. Depending on the amount of money left, I may consider working part-time on the project myself (unlike working on it at evenings on my free time now).

The game will still remain free software in the future. The only change to that is that the Pay to Play server will be always running the newest software, and the free software releases will lag a bit behind that. So you need to subscribe to see all the bells and whistles.

Subscribers will also get priority whenever bugs and in-game issues are being looked into.

More info coming soon…

Update: Note the date

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ViewGit 0.0.4 has been released.

Freshmeat announcement is pending:

Added support for optional authentication methods and a simple plugin framework (including an example plugin for Google Analytics).

Fixed various minor bugs as well & improved error handling and reporting.

It was about time to gather the changes into a release.

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Second public release of Encreecia has just been set free.

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More or less. I got a lot of new ideas & important feedback. Six of us joined:

• Oak
• aGu
• beardy
• Targhar
• eladan
• xeno

There weren’t as many issues as I was expecting (testers might disagree), only major one was a last time change I did and blundered.

Thanks to everyone!

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Encreecia 0.0.9 has been released just now. This is the first public release, and comprises of two years of development and 14k+ lines of Java source (including newlines & comments). It marks my biggest single Free Software contribution so far, and hopefully the last big one, ever. From now on, I hopefully Release Early & Often

For a short flashback to the background of this project, check out the history page. Or go straight for the screenshots.

41d966ea51c20d40fd46114cc44ba66e3a09af4a  jfealdia-client-v0.0.9.zip
b42f8c9198046cacd5eef728df151f7770b5ebce  jfealdia-src-v0.0.9.zip

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Because the URL monitoring trigger I mentioned earlier was not enough for my needs, I wrote a more flexible URL monitoring script: urlwatch. It looks for URLs (custom pattern), checks them for exclude targets (networks, channels, or nicks can be excluded), exclude patterns (a regular expression of URLs to ignore), highlights the ones matching custom targets or patterns, and prints (format customizable) the result in the status window.

This script also works out-of-box without configuring, just running it is enough.

Available as part of the scripts project, in irssi/urlwatch.pl. You can either download the whole tree or only the script (tree -> irssi/ -> urlwatch.pl blob).

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I’ve released another small project. This time a statistics generator for IRC, written in Perl under GPLv2. This release comes only four years late (but hey, I finally got around to ticking off this release from my todo list). It only understands irssi logs. And is partly broken & unfinished, too.

The idea was to be similar to pisg – but much more detailed with personal stats for each and every nick. In other words, statistics, statistics, and more statistics – which is the whole point with IRC statistics generators (duh).

A screenshot:

And an example output for a channel.

This one is only available via ViewGit @ code.fealdia.org:

• http://code.fealdia.org/viewgit/?a=summary&p=eircca

Note that I’m not exactly sure where the spring embedder algorithm is from. It’s ripped from my “scripts” project’s snet.pl, which in turn suffers from similar “no clue of source” problem. If you know, enlighten me :-}

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