staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2008-05-11

thejet [11-May-2008 @ 18:15]

Filed under: project status,stats — thejet @ 18:15 +00:00

:: 11-May-2008 18:15 GMT (Sunday) ::

As you have probably noticed, we now have more detailed completion
statistics available for the OGR-25 project. By clicking on the
‘%-complete’ number on the main project status page, one can reach
a detailed ‘stubspace completion’ page. This new page outlines
the completion rates for each stubspace, as well as the overall
project stub completion information. You can reach the new page
directly at:

http://stats.distributed.net/project/ogr_status.php

In addition, for those statistics junkies out there, we have historical
information available as well at the following URL:

http://stats.distributed.net/project/ogr_status_history.php

The status history screen will display a usage message if appropriate
arguments are not supplied, which I have duplicated here for those
interested:

Usage:
project_id == The project to do stubspace reporting on
stubspace_id == [optional] The specific stubspace to report on
start_date == [optional, default: 30 days ago,
format example: 01-Apr-2008]
The date to start pulling data
end_date == [optional, default: today, format example: 01-Apr-2008]
The last date to pull data for
output_format == The output format you’d prefer [xml, csv]

Usage Example:
ogr_status_history.php?project_id=25&output_format=xml

It should be noted that the OGR completion percentages do update a
couple hours later than the rest of the statistics information
[usually around 01:30 UTC].

If anyone would like to see changes/enhancements to any of these
screens, please don’t hesitate to open a bug in bugzilla and copy me
[thejet@distributed.net] in the CC field. We’ll take a look and see if
we can integrate your suggestions, or better yet, submit a patch! :)
Bugzilla can be found here:

http://bugs.distributed.net/

Thanks for your participation and happy crunching!!! MOOO!!!

2008-04-16

thejet [16-Apr-2008 @ 11:40]

Filed under: stats — thejet @ 11:40 +00:00

:: 16-Apr-2008 11:40 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Thanks to Simon T. we’ve got another XML export in our stable.
The Participant Summary page is now available as an XML export.
The new page can be reached at:

http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary_xml.php

The page takes the following arguments [as query string parameters]:

id = The participant ID
project_id = The project ID [25 == OGR-25, 8 == RC5-72]
show_friends = Include friend statistics in a element
show_neighbors = Include neighbor statistics in a element

An example can be seen here:

http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary_xml.php?id=236831&project_id=25&show_friends=1&show_neighbors=1

Hopefully over the next few weeks/months we’ll get a more robust implementation
to allow all of our statistics pages to be viewed in XML form, making
life much easier for those 3rd party statistics web sites to grab their
core data.

2003-11-04

thejet [04-Nov-2003 @ 13:10]

Filed under: Uncategorized — thejet @ 13:10 +00:00

:: 04-Nov-2003 13:10 GMT (Tuesday) ::

We have had numerous requests to add sub-team functionality to the
statistics system. With the recent migration to PostgreSQL, we feel
we are now in a position to offer sub-team statistics to our users,
but we first need to know what you (our users) want to see. There
are a few limitations as to how these statistics can be implemented,
but I want to leave the door open for any and all suggestions.

You can view the status of the bug and offer your comments here:

http://n0cgi.distributed.net/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3479

2003-10-22

thejet [22-Oct-2003 @ 21:11]

Filed under: Uncategorized — thejet @ 21:11 +00:00

:: 22-Oct-2003 21:11 GMT (Wednesday) ::

Evening everyone,
I am pleased to announce that we have re-enabled
large portions of the stats system this evening. As
a result the following functions are again available
through the stats website:

Participant Password Mailing

Participant Edits

NOTE: The authentication for participant edits
has changed slightly. You are now required to enter
your participant id in the “Username” field when/if
you are prompted for your username/password.

That leaves only two major pieces of functionality
remaining to complete the PGSQL migration. Team joins
are in process and almost complete, Participant retires
is not quite as far along, but the hard parts are mostly
done. I would expect to see these two bits appear before
the end of next week.

A number of other bugs have been squashed and there
are new versions of a number of the pages available. Please
do not hesitate to report any new bugs that you find by
utilizing the “bug database” link at the top of the stats
pages.

Thanks again to everyone for their patience, and keep
on crunching!

2003-09-05

thejet [05-Sep-2003 @ 15:54]

Filed under: Uncategorized — thejet @ 15:54 +00:00

:: 05-Sep-2003 15:54 GMT (Friday) ::

Welcome to my first .plan entry!

We’ve been hammering away at the stats PostgreSQL conversion
and part of that conversion has lead to the production of some
XML-based data export functions. We’ve placed these files out
on the stats server on an experimental basis, sort of a public
RFC on the schema being used. Please feel free to comment on
the structure and make suggestions here:

XML “meta-bug”.

The new pages can be found here:

http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary_xml.php?project_id=25&team=1

http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmember_xml.php?project_id=25&team=1

We look forward to your comments!