Comment 72 for bug 392799

I poked one week's worth of #ubuntu logs with pisg in order to get an idea of the level of channel business. The logs are from the week of 11th to 17th of this month, retrieved from http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/ . Joins/parts are filtered from these logs.

* The average number of active nicks per day is 759
* The average number of lines per day is 8028, or 5.5 lines per minute
* The variation between busiest and calmest hours is not dramatic, but you can see relatively more traffic somewhere between hours 02 to 04, and again between 19-21. I assume the logs use UTC (is this correct?)
* Saturday is slowest. I wonder why :-)

The effect of hiding joins/parts is quite dramatic: the unfiltered log from the 12th has 17200 lines, or 12 lines per minute.

The logs i used and the stats that pisg created can be found at http://people.ubuntu.com/~topyli/ubuntulogs-jan11-17-2010/

Hope this helps evaluate the business of the channel. Please point out errors in my method, I am not internationally celebrated for my quantitative research work. :-)