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I've been silent for over a month now since my last blog entry about bringing back the KDE Commit-Digest, but it was for good reason, as I have been hard at work on two things:

1. Working on completing the first working version of Enzyme, the web platform for creating Commit-Digests.
2. Renovating the commit-digest.org website to interface with Enzyme, and making it nicer in general.

These steps have taken longer than I expected - especially step 2, as it involved me rewriting the code of the website (this was needed as I started originally learning PHP by making the Digest website, and I have learnt a lot about web development over the past 4 years!).

The concept of Enzyme is of a project-independent (and eventually SCM-agnostic) tool for creating regular project reports and assisting interesting statistical analysis. I have released Enzyme under an open source licence (Affero GPL version 3, unless anyone has any objections) to allow anyone to view and edit the code, or setup an Enzyme instance for their own project.

The good news is that I have finally finished the first working version (i'll fix any issues that come with real world use and feedback), and so I enter the second stage of the relaunch, which involves you...

Now that I have created the distributed platform for producing Digests, the success of the relaunch depends on how many people step up and volunteer over a long term basis.
There are 3 main ways you can contribute, which are listed at http://commit-digest.org/contribute/:

• Commit Reviewers look at all the recent commits made to KDE, selecting those which are significant and interesting enough to be included into the weekly Commit-Digest.
• Feature Editors contact people working on interesting projects within KDE and assist them in writing original pieces which are presented in the introduction of each Commit-Digest.
• Translators increase the reach of the Commit-Digest and the work done across KDE by making the weekly Commit-Digests (and the website interfaces) available in the native language of people around the world.

All these volunteer jobs can be applied for at http://commit-digest.org/contribute/

I'll introduce Enzyme and talk about the other cool stuff i've been doing around this in more blog posts over the next few days!