A repository for work on analyzing open source mailing lists.

Nothing much formalized, but here's what we've got:

dumps/

This directory contains some mbox dumps from Mozilla mailing lists.

Mozilla has a lot of Forums. Each is mirrored in Mailman, a Newsgroup, and a Google Groups.

The dumps in this directory were retrieved using the nntp-pull tool that's part of the [sinntp](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/sinntp.1.html) package.

scripts/

This directory has a couple basic scripts I've been playing with or trying ot port over.

• news-sources.perl A script from Mozilla's Gervase Markham that gets the subscription information from the list.

• Threader.java Jamie Zawinski's code for message threading, ported from C in 1997. See his description of the algorithm.

• thread.py An (incomplete!) port of the Threader algorithm to Python.

• timeseries.py Plots a histogram of the timing of posts to an email message.

charts/

Contains a couple saved visualizations outputed by analysis scripts. Currently, time series histograms of mailing lists.

notebooks

Some attempts to use iPython notebooks for this wor.

version-control

Some scripts, analysis, and charts from a related study using version control data.