[Qgis-developer] we got stats!

[Alex Mandel]

On 06/13/2010 02:00 AM, strk wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:57:43AM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/pdashboard?showmetrics=true
>>
>> interesting enough, isn't it?
> 
> The SWF movie is not free-software-friendly.
> It targets latest-and-greatest-and-least-supported version
> of flash player. In particular, it uses the newer bytecode
> thus requiring vesion 2 of the flash virtual machine, which
> no popular free software player implements.
> 
> Where does it come from ? Can the author be contacted about it ?
> 
> --strk;
> 
>   ()   Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer
>   /\   http://strk.keybit.net/services.html

I believe it's the http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracMetrixPlugin and
looking at their docs/code they use the Yahoo charts api. I doubt Yahoo
cares.

If you have any suggestions for alternative Trac plugins that do the
similar metrics with a different output options I'd be interested. It's
unlikely the makers of the current plugin plan to change.

I guess I find it odd too since numpy is being used on the backend, why
not use matplotlib to produce some images that can be tossed into the
page. While the charts feature hover overs, I don't see much added value
from the use of flash at all in this case.

Thanks,
Alex