Making TFB Video

avatars.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import re
import os
import urllib
# See https://github.com/gridaphobe/pyGravatar
from gravatar import Gravatar

adir='avatars'
if not os.path.exists(adir):
  os.mkdir(adir)

with open('all_authors.txt') as f:
  for line in f:
    match = re.findall(r'[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+', line)
    name = line.split(' <')[0]
    if os.path.exists(os.path.join(adir, name+'.jpg')):
      print "Skipping %s, already have avatar" % name
    for email in match:
      print "Found %s for %s" % (email, name)
      g = Gravatar(email, default='404')
      tfile = urllib.URLopener()
      try:
        tfile.retrieve(g.thumb, os.path.join(adir, name+'.jpg'))
        print "  Downloaded"
      except IOError:
        print "  No gravatar"

make_tfb_video.sh

# Download repo
git clone https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks.git
cd FrameworkBenchmarks

# Create an easily-parsable list of github authors so we can 
# grab their gravatar IDs
git log --format='%aN <%aE' | uniq > all_authors.txt

# Run script to fill in the avatars/ directory with images
python avatars.py

# Create gource specific log instead of reading from git each time
# we modify the commands slightly
`gource --log-command git` > glog.log

# Run gource and pipe results to avconf
# See https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
gource -w --viewport 1024x768 \
  # Make users bigger as our codebase is huge
  --user-scale 2 --hide mouse,bloom,filenames \
  --multi-sampling \
  # Only show one level of directory names
  --dir-name-depth 1 \
  # First commit after round 9 to last in R10
  --start-date '2014-03-19 13:10:00' --stop-date '2015-03-24' -
  --seconds-per-day 0.5 --dir-colour 00D0FF --auto-skip-seconds 1 --logo te.png --date-format '%d %B %Y' \
  # Allow files to hang around
  --file-idle-time 0 \
  # Use avatars download from gravatar by avatars.py
  --user-image-dir avatars \
  # Color all the collaborators orange
  -highlight-colour FF8000  --highlight-user 'Brian Hauer' --highlight-user 'Mike Smith' --highlight-user 'Hamilton Turner' --highlight-user 'Keith Newman' --highlight-user 'Keith R. Gustafson' --highlight-user 'Keith Gustafson' --highlight-user 'Steven Smith' --highlight-user 'Lita Gratrix' --highlight-user 'Brittany Mazza' --highlight-user 'Alex Schneider' \
  # Output to avconv
   -o - glog.log | avconv -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 1 -threads 0 -bf 0 gource.mp4