Responsiveness report

After a few months on creating responsiveness reports on the the users - and dev at cloudstack mailing lists, here is the way of working so far. Please improve or contact dahn at apache with suggestions:

• Reports contain mails with questions that have gone unanswered.
• (obsoleted for reporting convenience: questions posed on both list that are reported on are reported under the users list)
• Reports are on a weekly basis.
• Weeks range from monday till sunday. this seems not to come to requiring a precision that takes timezones into account(, yet).
• As a save margin at least a day is waited before reporting if any questions where posed on sunday.
• As a rule the report is made at the latest in the weekend after the closing of a week. This is not sponsored manual labour so be patient as you remind the community it is missing for a certain period.

Here is what makes this report difficult to script:

• Questions posed by committers are not taken into account/included in the report.
• implicit questions that might be interpreted as bug reports as well, are not taken into account. A (public or private) query as to the purpose of the post might be in order.
• Any question thread that has only one sender and does not include an answer to one self is taken into account
• A message in which a link to a question in another medium (i.e. stackoverflow.com) is included will be ignored for all intended purposes of this report.
• Any thread with more then one sender is taken into account if
  • all senders pose questions or
  • those who do not pose questions do not give answers or hints on how to find answers
• a answer may not be given in the same thread. This happens if
  • a chinese person cross-posts a question in English to users and users-cn but gets an answer in chinese to users-cn This seems to be picked up by markmail but is not archived with the english question.
  • an answer is given in a jira ticket. if the titel is (exactly) the same it shows in markmail.