Bug#791678: www.debian.org: recover website hit stats (and translations prioritization)
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-admin@lists.debian.org
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Dear all
We used to have website hit counts gathered some website mirror, and
they were
used for ordering the webpages with translation pending (pages like this
one:
https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/es#untranslated for Spanish), so
translators knew how to prioritize.
These stats were stored in DDE which is dead since some time (a year?
more?).
I am interested in getting the website hit stats back again (for translation
priorizitation).
Maybe the stats file can be copied to another place instead of DDE?
The file http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/get-www-stats
says:
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# This program is run from a crontab on a Debian website mirror like this:
#
# MAILTO="porridge@debian.org"
# # Atomically and concurrent-safely create a stats.tgz
# 18 3 * * * cd "$HOME" && d=$(mktemp -d stats-wip-XXXXXXXXXX)
&& printf '{"hostname":"\%s"}' $(hostname -f) > "$d/stats.meta.json" &&
./get-www-stats > "$d/stats.json" && tar zcf stats-wip.tgz "$d" && rm
-rf "$d" && mv stats-wip.tgz stats.tgz
#
# And the output is transferred to dde.debian.net like this:
#
# MAILTO="porridge@debian.org"
# # Atomically transfer stats and replace them.
# 18 4 * * * cd $HOME && { [ ! -e stats-old ] ||
please_cleanup_failed_run ; } && cp -al stats-new stats-old && ln -s
stats-old stats-old.s && mv -T stats-old.s stats && { scp -q -i
.ssh/stats-transfer-nopass senfl.debian.org:stats.tgz stats.tgz ||
scp_failed ; } && rm -rf stats-new && mkdir stats-new && tar zxf
stats.tgz -C stats-new --strip-components=1 && rm stats.tgz && ln -s
stats-new stats-new.s && mv -T stats-new.s stats && rm -rf stats-old
#
# The output is then exported via DDE (see https://wiki.debian.org/DDE)
and used
# by the stattrans.pl script to sort the page lists in the Debian web site
# translation statistics pages.
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I'd like to know if somebody from DSA may help with these:
1.- In which mirror is stored that cron job? (or should be stored)
2.- In order to create/modify the cron job, who do I need to talk to?
3.- Where should the cron job copy the stats file to?
After those issues are addressed, I can try to submit a patch against the
website script "stattrans.pl", so it gets
the file from the new location instead from DDE, and generates the
ordered list
of pending translation.
I've considered adopting the DDE service, but it's long time since no other
people use it, and I've encountered problems deploying it, and in the
case of
the website statistics no particular DDE feature was used, we could just
store
the file in other place and get it from there.
Regards
Laura Arjona
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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