AdoptionStats generates a data list and constantly returns it in the same format and therefore the results can easily be manipulated by other scripts, e.g. for generating graphs.

Use

I’ve pushed to script to a Bazaar branch on Launchpad: lp:~qense/+junk/adoptionstats. If you haven’t done it yet, install Bazaar and download the code with the command “bzr branch lp:~qense/+junk/adoptionstats” .

The script depends on the package ‘python-launchpad-bugs’, execute the command “sudo apt-get install python-launchpadlib” python-launchpad-bugs or click here click here to install it if you haven’t installed it yet.
(now using python-launchpadlib, thanks to thekorn)

The usage is very simple, but make sure you’ve made the script executable — right-click->Properties->Permissions->check ‘Allow execution of this file’, or just “chmod +x ./adoptionstats” . For getting a report on the current status of the ‘nautilus’ source package you enter the command “./adoptionstats -p nautilus” in the directory you save the file. The result is like this:

2010-01-21 16:15 {'need_forwarding': 5, 'per_status': {'In Progress': 3, 'Confirmed': 0, 'Invalid': 2279, 'New': 34, 'Fix Committed': 1, 'Triaged': 583, 'Fix Released': 754, 'Incomplete': 158, "Won't Fix": 16}}

Since the application uses optparse you can get the help text with “./adoptionstats -h”, but the only other option next to ‘-p’ and ‘-h’ is ‘-v’, which enables the printing of debug-level messages to your commandline.