#+title: Some stats regarding emacs modernisation discussions

Uses coreutils, curl, elisp, and pandoc.

* Message count

#+begin_src sh
curl https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/index.html \
  | pandoc --from=html --to=markdown --wrap=none \
  | grep "^    -   \\[" \
  | wc -l
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 1392

* Message count last september

#+begin_src sh
curl https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/index.html \
  | pandoc --from=html --to=markdown --wrap=none \
  | grep "^    -   \\[" \
  | wc -l
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 678

* Average last year

#+begin_src sh
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
curl https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-0$i/index.html \
  | pandoc --from=html --to=markdown --wrap=none \
  | grep "^    -   \\[" \
  | wc -l
done
#+end_src

#+name: ret
#+RESULTS:
|  981 |
|  331 |
| 1042 |
| 2107 |
| 3434 |
|  902 |
|  766 |
| 1093 |

#+begin_src elisp :var x=ret
(/ (apply #'+ (mapcar #'car x)) (float (length x)))
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 1332.0


* Unique authors

#+begin_src sh
curl https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/index.html \
  | pandoc --from=html --to=markdown --wrap=none \
  | grep "^    -   \\[" \
  | sed -E 's/^.*, \*(.*)\*,.*$/\1/' \
  | sort | uniq | wc -l
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 131

* Top authors by number of messages

#+begin_src sh
curl https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/index.html \
  | pandoc --from=html --to=markdown --wrap=none \
  | grep "^    -   \\[" \
  | sed -E 's/^.*, \*(.*)\*,.*$/\1/' \
  | sort | uniq -c | sort -bnr | head -20
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
| 150 | Eli     | Zaretskii    |        |
| 118 | Ergus   |              |        |
|  84 | Richard | Stallman     |        |
|  74 | Stefan  | Monnier      |        |
|  70 | Dmitry  | Gutov        |        |
|  60 | Drew    | Adams        |        |
|  59 | Göktuğ  | Kayaalp      |        |
|  57 | Lars    | Ingebrigtsen |        |
|  46 | Stefan  | Kangas       |        |
|  44 | Gregory | Heytings     |        |
|  41 | Robert  | Pluim        |        |
|  39 | tomas   |              |        |
|  39 | Alfred  | M.           | Szmidt |
|  27 | Arthur  | Miller       |        |
|  24 | Ricardo | Wurmus       |        |
|  20 | Thibaut | Verron       |        |
|  19 | T.V     | Raman        |        |
|  19 | Daniel  | Martín       |        |
|  18 | Juri    | Linkov       |        |
|  18 | Andrea  | Corallo      |        |