I was curious, so I extracted the post times for all ooo-dev posts in 2012 (over 10,000 of them), normalized the times to UTC, adjusting for time zone (python script), and made a histogram in R.
The glorious results are here: http://people.apache.org/~robweir/ooo-dev-hist.gif I don't have any conclusions or interpretations. I suppose the point is I now have figured out how to mine data from the mailing lists, so if we see any value for other kinds of reports, let me know. -Rob
