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Rinchenmdke, to be clear about my last email. I'm just volunteering to be the Canonical contact for the Fridge so the team HAS one. I'm not the leader.12:56
Rinchenit's a community thing so me leading it would be inappropriate12:57
Rinchenalthough, I admit, I'm trying to help as best I can12:57
Rinchenand I hope it's appreciated. If not then please tell me.12:58
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Rinchenlol01:55
Rinchenoh, beuno01:55
Rinchenglad you are here01:55
RinchenI completely forgot01:55
RinchenOne of the thoughts I had, which has not been cleared anywhere...01:56
Rinchenwas to think about taking Ubuntu Stats and making it semi-official in that we'd host it and make it available. Maybe as a link to the fridge01:56
Rinchener, OFF of the fridge01:56
RinchenThink about that with your guys and let me know if it is of interest.01:57
RinchenI'm totally ok with it as is01:57
beunoRinchen: I'm VERY interested  :D01:57
beunoI'm having performance issues and can't handle the load on my servers01:57
RinchenI thought of this in terms of how to draw more people to the fridge and thought of the fridge as the big poster board of news items with all sorts of whizzbang dials (aka the ubuntu stats stuff)01:57
beunoI've had some help from mitchm, but it doesn't seem enough01:58
beunosure, I love the idea01:58
Rinchenah good. mitchm is down the road here so that's easy01:58
RinchenI'd need to run the base code by the web and server team before I could go further01:58
beunoand, if you're around tomorrow, I can tell you a bit of what the roadmap is  :D01:58
Rinchenooh, I like roadmaps01:59
beunowhat you see know is the tip of the iceberg  :D01:59
beunoknow == now01:59
RinchenMy fear with stats is that, while I have planned daily stats for Launchpad, I don't think I have the performance to do realtime01:59
Rinchenso I may run into your exact problem02:00
beunoRinchen: probably, yes  :D02:00
beunobut on the other hand, it's not that big of a problem, I just have small servers02:00
Rinchenbut, if you recall something Mark said at Ubuntu Live....02:00
Rinchensomething about APIs02:00
beunooh, I wasn't there  :(02:00
RinchenLP is getting APIs02:01
beunoAPIs for launchpad?  that would rock!02:01
Rinchenindeed02:01
Rinchenour gathering of great minds is in two weeks but we've had this idea around for some time02:01
Rinchenmy thought:02:01
RinchenI might be able to reduce the performance demands by using the APIs02:01
Rinchenso you could continue as is02:02
Rinchenhowever, I'd again need a copy of the code to give to the devs02:02
beunoabsolutely, I'm parsing emails instead of getting the information directly02:02
Rinchenso they could use it as a "use case" when building the API structure.02:02
beunoAPIs should cut performance problem by 1002:02
Rinchenor more :-)02:02
beunowell, the code is here: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-marketing/ubuntu-stats/devel02:03
Rinchenoh great!02:03
beunoalthough it's not copy'n'paste because we tweak a lot on the server, and right now it's split into two02:03
beunoand the code is uuuuuuugly02:03
beunovery ugly02:03
RinchenThe Fridge team would have to approve the idea of hanging this off the Fridge and such02:03
beunobut, it works  :D02:03
Rinchenjust my idea at the moment02:03
Rinchenbut I can at least try to get those APIs for you so your existing service will be better02:04
beunoI'd love if it would have a more oficial embracement02:04
beunoRinchen: I would have to send you a case of beer if you do that  :D02:04
Rinchenwell, we do have some level of this internally today but implemented completely different and not real-time02:04
Rinchenso we've been using your most excellent concept to show us the way forward02:05
beunoRinchen: the next two things that you will be seing out the door for ubuntustats are:   "Ubuntu Weekly Stats", for the UWN, based on all the info we gather02:05
beunoaaaaaaaaand02:05
beunothe one I like most02:05
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Rinchenexcellent...this is where I was going with my own stats project before you did yours02:08
Rinchenso I'm happy to see it done02:08
Rinchenand happy to help where I can02:08
beunoI can't find it right now, we're moving stuff around so I'm a bit dizzy02:09
beunoanyway02:09
beunoyou would embed an image in, for example, a forum thread02:09
beunoand that image would reflect a bug status02:09
beunoand of course, it updates when the bug does02:09
beunoso when you land on a thread02:09
beunoyou know what the CURRENT status of the bug is  :D02:10
Rinchenhow interesting. I'm going to share that with MPT if you don't mind.02:10
beunosure02:10
beunowho is MPT?02:10
Rinchenlol02:10
Rinchensorry, mpt (irc nick) is the LP interface designer and usability engineer02:11
beunoI've been trying to get this done by the launchpad devs, and then the forum people, but no one wanted to do it02:11
Rinchenand we've been cooking up some good ideas on how to improve LP02:11
beunoRinchen: oooh, "matthew paul thomas"?02:11
Rinchenthat's the one02:11
Rinchentoday the connection from image to status in what you described is not doable02:12
Rinchenjust no way02:12
Rinchenbut with API's02:12
beunowell, it's done on my side, every time the subscribed email address to ubuntu bugs get an email02:12
Rinchenyou could do a bug watch of sorts and pull the status and set the image yourself02:12
beunoit checks what changed02:12
beunoupdated the DB02:12
beunoupdates de image02:12
beunota-daaaa02:12
Rinchenyep, same concept except with api02:12
beunoyeap02:13
beunovery easily interchangeable02:13
beunoand much faster02:13
beunoif I could access launchpad with APIs instead of emails02:13
Rinchenabsolutely02:13
beunocool, I'm happy there is some interest in the project02:14
beunoI wasn't sure what people thought since after it got dugg it didn't get anymore attention02:15
RinchenSo I've emailed the bug image and ubuntustats and ask them to be treated as use cases for the APIs (the first step).   Assuming that is accepted then once the APIs appear we would have the tech available to put this on the Fridge...so it would be ok at that time to see if people like or hate the idea02:15
RinchenThe stats stuff is amazing. The only thing missing is pretty graphs :-)02:15
Rinchenand you probably have them02:16
Rinchenor gave the data to carthik :-)02:16
beunoit's on the roadmap02:16
beunoheheh02:16
beunoanyway, I'm heading home02:20
beunothanks a lot for everything Rinchen, and keep on pushing for the fridge, we're very thankful for it!   :D02:21
Rinchensometimes I wonder :-)02:21
Rinchenbut I'm glad02:21
RinchenI'm off too... LoCo is arriving to learn Esperanto02:21
Rinchenhehe02:22
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