Re: Gathering data on user preferences

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Cross [2021-09-08 Wed 18:14] wrote:
>
>> I would imagine the package I'm proposing would likely leverage off some
>> of the code which generates the data attached to bug reports. I also
>> think it would be good to be able to mine the data which exists in bug
>> reports, but have no idea how easily that could be done.
>>
>> I do think there is probably some really valuable data currently sitting
>> in the Emacs bug tracker and it would be an interesting project to try
>> and mine that repository to see what we could get out of it. However, I
>> have no idea what API the system provides or how easy this would be to
>> do (without significant human intervention). 
>
> I can download the mbox files for each month, going back a few years and
> then aggregate them according to month or even week. I'll do it in
> python and can share the data and code if I get something interesting.

It will be interesting to see what you get and how hard it was to
extract. I suspect the bug reports could be  a gold mine of valuable
data, but it may be difficult to process.