Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
Hi Pypers,Is there any open source tool for analyzing mailman archives ? I want to analyze our mailman archives and then find out the following information. - Total number of messages - Total number of threads (conversations) - Total number of unique posters - Maximum size of a thread - Top 5 posters - Top 5 threads (in terms of size) Are you aware of any tool (preferably Python) which does this ? The tool should be client-side, taking the URL to the mailman archives page as the only input. If there is nothing like this, perhaps I could think of writing one. It would be useful I guess...
I'm not aware of any such tool but it would be quite useful. If you produce a library for obtaining the data, I would then hook it into the rrdtool (round-robin database) and produce graphs of traffic on various mailing lists. This would help identify growth rates, when to split a list, dying lists, etc. which can help others to manage better. Have a "top 5 posters" and "top 5 threads" would be useful on the front page of many usergroup websites to encourage others to join in.
I would agree that it should be client-side since not all archive sites would update Mailman just to use it. It also should cache data and not re-fetch "finished" (i.e. prior months) list archives it has already analyzed. It should not, of course, keep a complete copy of the archive, just a summary, by interval of time like month. Keep the data in SQLite or shelve, to keep database needs lightweight for easier integration with anyone's choice of web engine.
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