[Distutils] logs/download numbers on pypi decreased a lot

[holger krekel]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 15:13 -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2014, at 7:22 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:10 -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
> >>> Hi Donald, all,
> >>> 
> >>> i noticed that for several packages daily download numbers are only a
> >>> tenth or so of what they used to be.  This occurs since about a couple
> >>> of days or a week ago.  Any known reason?
> >>> 
> >>> cheers,
> >>> holger
> >> 
> >> As far as I know there have been no changes on our end. Fastly might
> >> have changed something.
> > 
> > Any chance to find out from them?  If we have such unexplained changes
> > in download numbers the question is if those numbers make any sense at
> > all currently.
> > 
> > FWIW you can still see the change in the current data.  If you look 
> > at e.g. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib/
> > you'll see monthly download of around 135K and daily of ~400 -- if
> > you multiply the latter by 30 you arrive at around 12K -- hence my
> > "only a tenth".
> > 
> > holger
> 
> I think I figured it out. A server’s hard disk was filled with temp
> files because of a bug in software that wasn’t cleaning up on failure.
> I’ve deployed the fix for that software and cleaned up the temp files.
> 
> There likely won’t be a backfill of data, we have the raw data but
> things aren’t set up to easily handle backfills.

Thanks for caring! a gap of a week is not a big deal IMO.

holger

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