updating elusive contributor stats

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:50 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:22:57 -0800
> Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was looking at this nifty graphic:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Contributors
> > 
> > ... noting that it hasn't been updated in a year.
> 
> :( 
> 
> > That looks like a base FAS dump of total accounts, which I reckon is
> > easy enough to get. But can it be automated? Or made easy for a yokel
> > like me to do it?
> 
> Is "active accounts" cla+1 ? or just anything with any account thats
> not marked inactive? cla+1 is easy to get by just going to fedorapeople
> and running a 'getent passwd | wc -l' I think.
> 
> > Along the same path, how about slicing contributors in to pools by FAS
> > groups?
> 
> That might be nice... see how and which groups are growing at what
> rate. 
> 
> > From here I reckon I've just started asking for a new tool, like
> > previous tools discussed, and some of which may exist, and datanommer
> > and ... halp?
> 
> Yeah, I can't think it would be too hard to dump out number of people
> in each group once a month or week or something. 
> 
> Can anyone think of a reason that information should be private? 
> I can't off hand.
> 

The sheer counts seem fine - provided no group membership data is dumped
or other location-base information, I think it's probably fine.

there are a number of standard sort of queries that would probably
benefit from running regularly.

-sv