updating elusive contributor stats

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 13:20, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, 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.
>>
>
> This was just active accounts, not 'contributors'.  One thing I'd note is
> this count isn't very accurate as we still aren't actively expiring
> accounts.  This number cannot go down at the moment, only up.  We should
> fix it, tricky to do without annoying everyone (IE: the reset your
> password fiasco.. you'd think I killed everyone's cat)

I think it was the free BBQ sauce you were handing out with the cats.

I think our next task should be. If you have not logged in for 6
months, you are disabled. If you have been disabeld for 6 months you
are expired. I think that would improve our numbers nicely. Of course
we are going to have a nice cleanup soon with the CLA -> FIPA (or
whatever it is called).

>        -Mike
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