Nothing directly to do with patches but a colleague of mine, Albert White, has produced some code swarm videos of OpenSoalirs code changes which I find way cool.
I've no idea what's it's telling me, but I'm sure it's telling me
something useful if I learn to listen.
For example, Area of code change and amount of code change => Risk => Areas on which to concentrate test coverage.
I've asked Albert if he can do something similar for Solaris 10.
BTW: I like his choice of music too!
From Albert to <pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org>, opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org :
A bit OT but this might be of interest to some of you.
You may have seen code_swarm videos on vimeo or youtube showing a
visualisation of code development (from the files changed in the putback
logs) over time for various projects.
I've put up videos of the [OpenSolaris] codeswarms of IPS [Image Packaging System] and ON [core Solaris Operating System and Network] here
http://blogs.sun.com/albertw/entry/opensolaris_code_swarms
Cheers,
~Albert