Provide statistics on access to hosted branches

WANT

Related to bug 54616.

Also interrested in this feature. Unfortunately the bug 54616 is a private bug... so impossible to see its evolution. Is it a bug ;-)

Bug 54616 is a private internal enhancement request that has a dependency on this bug, so watching its progress is not that helpful.

Hello! I've been looking for these statistics (number of checkouts or downloads), those are important numbers for me when considering whether or not to continue work on a project. Last comment is half a year old, has there been any progress?

Screenshots are also vital, in particular for GUI and graphics related projects, it'll help potential users assess it and maybe entice download or participation. I'm sure some would also like to promote their project using an interesting logo, etc.

Those statistics and a way to add a screenshot/image for the project overview page would make launchpad complete with no use for external project services. Any hints on upcoming features and possible implementation dates?

No progress has been made on this so far other than talking with some bzr people on how to get these counters.

We aren't going to get to this in the next cycle so lowering to Medium.

A very minimal need would be to see how many time and when a particular release was downloaded.

It would also be nice if this could be filtered geographically.

This bug affects me too

The ability to get such metrics was a topic point at a company meeting today. We'd really like to see this feature implemented.

See <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/528786> for the "affects project" behaviour here.

We'd first need to log access to branches. I've got some thoughts on how to do this, but no time to write the code. If you're interested in writing the code, let me know, and I'll help as much as I can.

Hi!

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lange <email address hidden> writes:

Jonathan> We'd first need to log access to branches. I've got some thoughts on how
Jonathan> to do this, but no time to write the code. If you're interested in
Jonathan> writing the code, let me know, and I'll help as much as I can.

If you could summarize the thoughts you have about this into this bug
report, we will see if we can allocate someone to help you with coding
this.

Regards,
Monty

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Michael Widenius <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lange <email address hidden> writes:
>
> Jonathan> We'd first need to log access to branches. I've got some thoughts on how
> Jonathan> to do this, but no time to write the code. If you're interested in
> Jonathan> writing the code, let me know, and I'll help as much as I can.
>
> If you could summarize the thoughts you have about this into this bug
> report, we will see if we can allocate someone to help you with coding
> this.

 * We already have some logging code in lp.codehosting.sshserver.accesslog.
 * Extend this API to have new events for reading from a branch and
writing to a branch.
 * In the bzr lp-serve plugin, emit an event the first time a branch
is read from and the first time a branch is written to
 * Do *not* emit log events then, but rather wait until the client has
disconnected and then emit one event, either read or write
 * The logged details should include the version of the Bazaar client
(if known) and the branch that was accessed
 * This code should be written at the level of the transport or lower,
so we can re-use between the lp-serve plugin and the sftp server

I'm fiddling around with some of this code now, extracting the code
from codehosting that isn't codehosting specific so that it can be
re-used in other Launchpad SSH servers. Don't let this block you if
you want to pursue further.

Hope this helps,
jml

This is in our backlog. We can mentor someone to do it if they want to put the effort in, otherwise at this point theres no ETA for it happening.

Can the API at https://api.edge.launchpad.net be used for this? If so, is a example script available? Ref also https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/139855

Can we please have this future? Please?