From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Fleischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gathering data on user preferences Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:41:38 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87h7exkphw.fsf@gmail.com> <20210907064208.GB4097@tuxteam.de> <874kavh5cb.fsf@posteo.net> <87r1dzfp14.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37759"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UgXvj3NgaWL+BYpjkjt6b5yxFF0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 12:45:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNv4h-0009c4-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:45:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNv4f-00008i-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNv1X-0007r2-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNv1V-0007ay-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNv1T-0005Sv-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:41:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274326 Archived-At: 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. -- Daniel Fleischer