Excerpts from Margarita Manterola's message of Don Aug 26 14:34:13 +0200 2010: > > I also wonder about the same graph for all > > the contributors to the project, whether the increase rates and the > > conversion between first uploads and the number of DDs, DMs (or NMs) > > are comparable. Would it be possible to try to get some indicators > > from the statistics in the way I'm mentioning? It might provide clues > > about the most effective measures to take. > > This one is more tricky, because even if the first upload info is > there, the creation of DD account is not listed in the main page, it > has to be fetched person by person. It could probably be scripted > somehow, but I don't really feel like doing it. If anyone wants to do > it, go ahead. > > For the record, I don't think it would be much different. It probably > is very very similar, only that in the case of DW the numbers are more > easily manageable.
In my experience the easiest way to find out when a certain person became a DD is to look at the debian-keyring changelog. I have written a script which parses this information for my research. It's online at http://gaudenz.durcheinandertal.ch/thesis/. It's in the scripts tarball on this site. The script you are looking for is debian_keyring.py. The script is probably not directly useable because it feeds the data into an SQL database, but might serve as a starting point and you could reuse the changelog parser. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
