On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Peter Pöml <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 06.03.2012 um 01:51 schrieb Dave Fisher: >> On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Peter Pöml wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> with some maintenance updates I did on download.services.openoffice.org, I >>> recently broke the download statistics >>> (http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/marketing_bouncer.html). I fixed them >>> a few days ago. The web page doesn't update anymore, though, since the 20th >>> of February. That was the day when I broke the generation of the underlying >>> download counting. >> >> The 20th of February, 2011 was about when the change was made to Kenai. > > Ah, interesting coincidence! So maybe the statistics are not processed since > then, anyway. > >>> I suppose that we don't mind to continue couting :-) and the underlying >>> data generation is fixed now. But who is in the position to get the page to >>> be updated again? >> >> Where and how do you generate the statistics. > > Right on the download server (download.services.openoffice.org). Once a day, > a script analyzes the logs and prunes it from requests that occur repeatedly > (download accelerators). It is maintained at > http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/svn/mod_stats/trunk/tools/. The numbers can be > requested in this form: > http://download.services.openoffice.org/stats/csv/20120229.csv > or http://download.services.openoffice.org/stats/csv/201202.csv monthly. The > best time to pull the data is at 1 a.m. GMT+1. >
Right now these URLs are not responding for me. No error, just no response. >>> I know there's a daily cronjob which pulls the download counts in CSV >>> format from download.services.openoffice.org, but I am not sure who >>> installed that and/or who has access to the web server where the stats are >>> hosted. >> >> I bet this is long gone. However there are other tools available. I think >> that the preferred way would be to have a buildbot in the CMS to pull the >> data and publish the page. > > There was a lot of interest in download numbers in the past. I don't know if > this is still the case. But if so, I'm happy to help. > I think it would be great to have these stats continue to be collected. Or at the very least, get a dump of the historical stats. What would we need to do to restore this? > Peter >
