[jwpalmer6]

Thanks!

I had two goals (at least) in mind while making this:

1) Experiment with some visualization approaches that I hadn't tried before. The annotated streamgraph, etc. 2) Tell the story of the history of git as a way to demonstrate just how many contributions go into complex open source software.

I definitely got what I wanted out of the experience for the first goal - a large project like this (for me) taught me a lot about how to approach and structure this type of effort, and the limits of some of the technologies that I used.

Regarding the second goal, I had wanted to layer on more of a narrative (using some type of scrollytelling or something similar), but I ended up realizing that that was going to be too difficult with the structure that I had created, so I ended up adding the annotations and leaving some of the narrative reconstruction up to the viewer. If I were to go back to this work, that's what I would try to refine.

In terms of open source, I will do that but haven't yet because things are a bit of a mess and I was honestly tired of looking at it. I'll probably go back to that in a bit.

Applying this to another repository in its current state would require a decent amount of manual data extraction/cleaning, but it's possible. I'm not convinced the results would be that interesting, however. I tried it myself as an experiment and was surprised how linear/regular some of the other repos were.