Frequently Asked Questions

• Will you edit the commit I just made?

  Generally, no. CIA's main job is to provide the latest news on many projects, not to provide accurate revision history. In the future there may be tools to let project admins change stored messages, but for now it's a very annoying process to change or delete a commit.

• I work on multiple projects, with different usernames on each. Can I still have a single author page?

  Yes. A rule for the stats://author ruleset can be added for you. Talk to someone with permission to edit it, like Micah. There is, however, no good way to transfer stats from one author name to another yet.

• Does CIA work with Sourceforge?

  Yes. Many projects on CIA are hosted by sourceforge. We have a HOWTO document for setting up SourceForge's CVS repositories with CIA, and their Subversion repositories include built-in CIA support.

• Does CIA work with Savannah?

  Probably not. Last we heard, they don't allow users to run scripts from CVS's loginfo file.

• Can I put messages from CIA on my web site?

  Yes. CIA exports RSS feeds for every stats target, so you can use any existing RSS aggregation software that can generate HTML.