Re: Statistics on each release

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 14:35 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 14:21 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> > Hello guys, I just read a xorg release announcement and found quite
> > interesting their statistics not only about people but also about
> > companies behind committers:
> > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-July/010706.html
> > 
> > Wouldn't be nice to have this in GNOME releases? :)
> 
> Indeed.  But there are some differences and it requires a bit more work.
> 
> It is easier to run gitdm against Linux or Xorg or Python or OOo or
> whatever because there is *one* 'module' involved.  But in GNOME we have
> dozens of modules involved, so it is required to consolidate the data.

Which is what Blip (née Pulse) does:

http://people.gnome.org/~shaunm/pulse/web/

It could easily generate reports like these. I know it feels
kind of like vaporware, given how long I've been working on
it without a deployment. But the code is pretty solid. It
wouldn't take too much to get it running.

--
Shaun