Substantively, this makes the table more readable by grouping users
into expanding sets by level of activity: active in last day, active
in last week, have an account at all. The class "active in last week",
as opposed to "active in last week but not in last day", makes more
natural comparisons both between realms and for one realm through time,
and it's less sensitive to the details of our definitions.
This also makes the terminology more standard. We already made that
change in the display, in the previous commit; as we go through the
logic here, we adjust the terminology in the code too.
Except in:
- docs/writing-bots-guide.md, because bots are supposed to be Python 2
compatible
- puppet/zulip_ops/files/zulip-ec2-configure-interfaces, because this
script is still on python2.7
- tools/lint
- tools/linter_lib
- tools/lister.py
For the latter two, because they might be yanked away to a separate repo
for general use with other FLOSS projects.
Sort of a hacky hammer, but
* The original design of the analytics system mistakenly attempted to play
nicely with non-UTC datetimes.
* Timezone errors are really hard to find and debug, and don't jump out that
easily when reading code.
I don't know of any outstanding errors, but putting a few "assert this
timezone is in UTC" around will hopefully reduce the chance that there are
any current or future timezone errors.
Note that none of these functions are called outside of the analytics code
(and tests). This commit also doesn't change any current behavior, assuming
a database where all datetimes have been being stored in UTC.
Previously, entering a non-UTC end time for a daily stat would give you
incorrect results. This is because:
* All daily stats are collected at and have end_times in the database in
midnight UTC.
* For daily stats, time_range returns a list of datetimes at midnight in the
timezone of its end argument. These datetimes are the only ones we look
for when looking for rows corresponding to the stat in the database.
* Previously, we passed on the end argument from the API to time_range,
without modification.
This consists of the `zulip_ops::stats` Puppet class, which has apparently
not been used since 2014, and a number of files that I believe were
only used for that. Also a couple of tiny loose ends in other files.
These are no longer useful, with our spiffy new analytics framework,
and we haven't in fact been using them for some time, while the
`active-user-stats` cron job does cause regular mail from cron.
Just delete them.
sort_client_labels sorts first by total, and then to ensure deterministic
outcomes, sorts (reverse) alphabetically by label.
Fixes regression introduced in 0c0e539.
Previously we showed the total number of users with an active account. This
changes it to show only the number of users that have logged in in the past
two weeks.
Rename 'zulip_internal' decorator to 'require_server_admin', add
documentation for 'server_admin', explaining how to give permission
for ./activity page.
Fixes: #1463.
Previously we would update FillState for daily stats on hourly boundaries as
well. This would create two extra queries on the FillState table every hour
(for each CountStat), which adds roughly 50ms of extra processing for each
CountStat each day, as well as two extra lines each hour in the analytics
log. This can be a minor annoyance when backfilling stats.
I think this is more pythonic?
We could also get rid of LoggingCountStats altogether, since it's now just a
special case of CountStat (is_logging == data_collector.pull_function is None).
But I think it's nice to keep the distinction since they behave so differently.
Removes the circular dependency of CountStat containing a DataCollector, and
DataCollector containing a function that takes a CountStat as an argument.
This will allow us to appropriately generalize CountStat to include
LoggingCountStat and CustomPullCountStat. It'll also make life easier when
we introduce DependentCountStat.
The previous zerver_* names were unwieldy and not very readable. This also
puts more of the useful information in one place; in particular, makes it
easier to skim a CountStat declaration and see if we're collecting it at a
user/stream granularity or a realm granularity.
It turned out to not be that useful once we added subgroup. The previous
design of the CountStat object also assumed more reuseability of the *_query
strings than what ended up happening.
The filter_args also had some carrying costs:
* It's hard to be confident that filter_args other than the ones explicitly
in our tests would have had expected behavior.
* The filter_args/join_args system is the most complex part of the CountStat
object, and makes understanding the *_query strings unnecessarily
difficult for a new contributor.
Groundwork for allowing stats like "Monthly Active Users".
CountStat.interval is no longer as clean a value as before, so removed it
from views.get_chart_data. It wasn't being used by the frontend anyway.
Removing interval from logger calls in counts.py is not a big loss since we
now include the frequency (which is typically also the interval) in
CountStat.property.
The code in fixtures.py is only called from populate_analytics_db, and is
only used for generating pretty fixture data for manual testing. This commit
adds tests for a few things that were easy to add tests for, and provides
some minimal coverage of the file, but is not meant to be comprehensive.
Originally, all the client names in populate_analytics_db started with
underscores to make it easy to selectively delete and regenerate them when
re-running populate_analytics_db.
We eventually want to merge populate_analytics_db into populate_db though,
in which case it makes more sense for them to share client names, and not
worry about the case where we run (or re-run) populate_analytics_db
independently of populate_db.
It will simplify the logic needed to process the "Sent by Me" view in
Messages Sent Over Time in stats.js.
Also, we gzip the data sent from our server, so there is little additional
network usage by doing this.
Greg Price
rht
Tim Abbott
derAnfaenger
Rishi Gupta
Aditya Bansal
Umair Khan
Greg Price
neiljp (Neil Pilgrim)
Vishnu Ks
umkay
Christian Hudon
Maxim Averin