code_swarm video of Ubuntu uploads

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+code_swarm video of Ubuntu uploads
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+<p>Joey Hess posted a
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/05/msg00265.html">draft</a>
+of a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/">code_swarm video for d-i
+a couple of weeks ago, which reminded me that I've been meaning to do
+something similar for Ubuntu for a while now as it's just about our
+archive's fifth birthday. I have a more or less complete archive of all our
+-changes mailing lists locally (I think I'm missing some of the very early
+ones, before the end of July 2004; let me know if you were one of the very
+early Canonical employees and have a record of these), and with the aid of
+<a href="https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib">launchpadlib</a> it's
+fairly easy to map all the e-mail addresses into Launchpad user names,
+massage out some of the more obvious duplicates, and then treat the stream
+of uploads as if it were a stream of commits.</p>
+
+<p>If you haven't seen code_swarm before, each dot represents an upload, and
+the dots "swarm" around their corresponding committers' names; more active
+committers have larger swarms of dots and brighter names. I assigned a
+colour to each of our archive components (uploads aren't really at the C
+code vs. Python code vs. translations vs. whatever kind of granularity that
+you see in other code_swarm videos), which mostly means that people who
+predominantly upload to main are in roughly an Ubuntu tan colour, people who
+predominantly upload to universe are coloured bluish, and people with a good
+mixture tend to come out coloured green. If I get a bit more time I may try
+to figure out enough about video editing software to add some captions.</p>
+
+<p>Here's the
+<a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-uploads.ogv">video</a>.</p>