Branch lifecycle statistics?

[Jonathan Lange]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
>

I *am* interested in that information. But sadly, Bazaar does not
provide any way to get at that information that I know of.

jml