Re: Bug statistics

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 22:15:42 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Does debbugs*.el support compiling statistics about our bugs?  Like
> > how many new bugs were reported and how many were closed during a
> > given period of time, including distribution by severity?
> 
> It doesn't, but there's this:
> 
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/emacs.html

Thanks.  Maybe this is enough.  A distribution of the time since
report to solution would be nice, though.

How and by whom are these charts produced?

> I thought those charts were a bit too coarse, so I've written some code
> that downloads all the debbugs data and mangles the info a bit, and then
> output to Javascript so that you can zoom a bit:

I actually thought about producing input for something like Gnuplot.

> The amount of data you need to do the computations client side are a
> bit...  on the large side.  I think my script takes, like, ten minutes
> to download the data, so I only run it very occasionally.

Sure, but this is hardly needed every day.  Once a month or 3 months
should be good enough, I think.