Branch lifecycle statistics?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net> writes:

    Jonathan> Hello,
    Jonathan> I'm interested in getting branch lifecycle statistics for Launchpad.
    Jonathan> In particular, I'm interested in getting statistics on the time
    Jonathan> between creating a branch and landing a branch.

    Jonathan> I think I can work on the assumption that all the core developers have
    Jonathan> roughly accurate clocks. In that case, the date started is probably
    Jonathan> the minimum of the date the branch was first created on Launchpad,

Not in my case. 

In general I push the branch just before doing a submission or because I
have another reason to share it. Until then I use a local branch and I
don't create a mirror on launchpad.

You may ignore that fact if you consider branches on lp alone, yet I
thought I mentioned it.

    Jonathan> and the date of the first revision of the branch.

The first commit in these local branches is not always accurate either, I
can hack a bit (days in the most extreme cases) before doing the first
commit and I'll tend to define the date started as being the one when I
*decide* to start working on it, but again you may not interested in
that information.

        Vincent