Re: [Statcvs-users] CVS

[Scott F. <sc...@at...>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:58:21PM +0200, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> Brian has already pointed out that CVS comments are often used to refer 
> to bug numbers from bug tracking software. These CVS comments might be 
> used to analyse # of bugs fixed per developer, time of bugfixes and 
> similar things.
> 
> On a related note: You have already mined SourceForge.net for CVS data. 
> SourceForge also provides bug trackers for projects, similar to those 
> mentioned by Brian. You might use screen scraping technology to extract 
> data about bugs from these trackers (date opened, date closed, 
> developers involved). CVS comments might be used to cross-correlate 
> this data with data from the CVS.

Indeed, we use our own version of StatCVS to parse log files, and we use
that integration to integrate CVS with JIRA:

  http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/cvs_integration.html

It even handles branches :)

Cheers,
Scott