Todo: Auto check recent activity of different channels

[kmpoppe]

(very) inactive channels can lead to frustrated visitors.

Thus, we'd need to implement a mechanism to automate a check how recent the latest activity was - that's easy with mailing lists and highly complex with channels that have no publicly accessible API that would yield such information.

I'm going to think of something as a first shot from which we can develop further.

[kmpoppe]

Checking mailinglist activity:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bj: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bf: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bi: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cm: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-td: 26 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cd: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ci: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-et: 8 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gh: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-mg: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-africa: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tz: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-af: 26 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bd: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-id: 59 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ko: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-asia: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph/: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tw: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-al: 4 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-at: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-blr: 26 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ba: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cat: 3 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-hr: 3 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-dk: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fi: 13 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fr-bzh: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fr: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.de/listinfo/berlin: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.de/listinfo/meckpomm: 10 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.de/listinfo/stuttgart: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gr: 13 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-is: 3 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it-southtyrol: 10 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it-lazio: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it-lombardia: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it-piemonte: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-it-trentino: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lu: 3 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-pt: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-rs: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-si: 8 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-es: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-se: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-iq: 44 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tr: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cr: 6 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cu: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-do: 9 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ni: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-massachusetts: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-nz: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ar/: 1 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bo/: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-br/: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cl/: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-co/: This month https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ec: 15 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-hn: 5 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-pe/: 2 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-uy: 15 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ve: 6 months ago https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-latam: This month

[matkoniecz]

Maybe we should remove talk-id and talk-iq from NSI?

[harry-wood]

I like that @kmpoppe How does it work? Can we run it somewhere on regular refresh cycle?

Of course it'd be nice if mailman showed this kind of thing on its summary page. That display looks like it was last updated several decades ago!

But yeah having this for a blend of different contact channels would be really neat too. e.g. it would be nice to be able to investigate: The indonesia mailing list is very inactive, so which of the indonesia channels is most active?

[Seandebasti]

I guess to visualize the "actvity" status somehow would be really helping. means, that an algorithm should check the time of the last post and show that.

[danieldegroot2]

With #532 I ran into (and thus did not update or add a sort order for)

• Especially IRC, XMPP which you can not see the history for as regular user.
• Google Groups (for which ones exist and are still valid); they should work like mailing lists, so can maybe use similar feeds.
• Matrix (depends also on if they are linked to any other resources).
• (WhatsApp, Signal); which is barely used. It may be hard to get numbers on these.