Re: Gathering data on user preferences

[Daniel Fleischer]

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.

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Daniel Fleischer