Gource Visualization for Wechaty

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Wechaty was built from scratch by Huan in May 2016. Let’s see what’s the first 30 days for the Wechaty Git Repo looks like!

The Visualization for Wechaty Website Contributors (2016 - 2022)

The visualization is amazing, we can see the file tree growth by every git commit/push from Wechaty Contributors with a clear timeline!

Wechaty Milestones

Wechaty was great improved in the past 5 years, we’d like to thank all our contributors because it definitely is a community effort!

I’d like to list the milestones that Wechaty archived from each year below for summary.

2016

NPM Published the very first version: 0.0.1
Commits 1,000+
Line of Code 10,000+
GitHub Stars 330+

2017

First Pull Request & Meetup
Testing CI/CD
DevOps Dockerization
Document JSDoc
GitHub Stars 2,000+

2018

Refactoring Modularized
SLOC 27,630 to 7,817
Ecosystem Wechaty Puppet
New Puppet PadChat
New Puppet PadPro
Git Commits 4,000+
Contributors 40+
Blog Posts 70+
GitHub Stars 4,000+

2019

NPM Downloads 700K+
Docker Pulls 30K+
Contributors 60+
GitHub Stars 6,000+

2020

Git Commits 6,000+
Polyglot 6+ Languages
GitHub Stars 9,000+

2021 (Till Feberary)

Puppet Services 4+
Puppet Providers 10+
Contributors 160+
Blog Posts 254+
NPM Downloads 1 Million
Used by 700+
Issue/PRs 2,100+
GitHub Stars 10,000+

The first 30 days of Wechaty

The above visualization is to show what I did in the first 30 days (May, 2016) when I built Wechaty from scratch!

How to Generate Gource Video

Want to make your Git repo a video like mine? Go ahead to install & visualize it!

Install

At first, you need to download gource source code from https://gource.io/.

I use the following commands successfully installed Gource in my Linux Ubuntu 20.04 desktop:

# Install development dependencies
$ sudo apt install \
    libglew-dev \
    libsdl2-dev
    libsdl2-image-dev \
    libboost-all-dev \
    libglm-dev

# Download, configure, and make install
$ tar zxvf ../gource-0.51.tar.gz
$ cd gource-0.51/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

# Gsource will be install in /usr/local/bin
$ gsource

Visualize

I use the following script to generate the gource visualization video:

$ git clone git@github.com:wechaty/wechaty.js.org.git
$ cd wechaty.js.org
$ gource \
    -1920x1080 \
    --camera-mode overview \
    --highlight-all-users \
    --file-idle-time 0 \
    -auto-skip-seconds 0.001 \
    --seconds-per-day 0.5 \
    --hide progress,mouse \
    --stop-at-end \
    --max-files 99999999999 \
    --max-file-lag 0.00001 \
    --output-ppm-stream - \
    | \
    ffmpeg \
        -f image2pipe \
        -vcodec ppm \
        -i \
        - \
        -y \
        -vcodec libx264 \
        -threads 8 \
        -b 3000k \
        -maxrate 8000k \
        -bufsize 10000k \
        video.mp4

Script credit: Matthias Krüger, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26905

Useful Argument Examples:

--start-date 2016-05-01
--stop-date 2016-06-01