It could also be worthwhile talking to the mailman developers and/or opening a bug about stats in their bug tracking system. We might be able to either get advice from those developers about how to do this or we could get features added to their development roadmap. This goes for any of the open source tools we use that we'd like to improve.
Mailman project site http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman David > Doug, I was thinking about how to stats from Mailman. If mailman > indeed lacks an API from which stats can be pulled, you could > roll-your-own stats generator by subscribing an automated mailbox to > the mailing lists. A process can periodically poll the mailbox, parse > received emails, and insert appropriate database rows into a > statistics database table. The same table can be queried by a web > front-end to display stats for a given mailing list. Seems like a > pain in the butt, but in the absence of a mailman API, perhaps it's > the only way. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2007 9:06:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Project_owners] Mailman statistics > > Douglas E. Warner wrote: > > I'm working on ways to determine a project's activity level as well > as > > providing more content for project admins to add to their pages and > need to > > get some information out of Mailman. > > > > I have two problems: > > 1) What statistics are useful from Mailman? > > 2) How do I get those statistics out of Mailman? > > I'm sorry, but too be honest; I could care less about anything else > on > the roadmap. > > > Does anyone have any ideas on what statistics they would like to > display to > > their users? If you have any ideas or experience on how to pull > these values > > from Mailman that would be great to hear as well. > > > > -Doug > > BTW: Does this work fall under the first category of priorities > (presumably "Project stats page" on the roadmap)? > > See also: http://www.mozdev.org/resources/roadmap.html > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
