On 4/29/13, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>
> It might be worth noting that periodic creation of these reports is not
> the primary aim, unless of course I am missing something. The way I
> interpret the core idea of the ticket is to provide users with a simple
> way of producing reports which can show another query as a function of
> time, where the timeslices within which to bin the data are configurable
> in size. As that would only give us a single column of data, it would
> also be good to be able to choose an additional column from the original
> query to group by in order to show comparative data. So we would then be
> able to get a table of data showing stuff like:
>
>   * the number of tickets that are created and resolved for a given
>     product per day
>   * the number of tickets that are open and closed for a given product
>     on each day
>   * the number of tickets assigned to or resolved by a particular user
>     per day
>
> and many other variations.
>

This looks really nice to me . The repository might be yet another target .

> For the moment these reports could be regenerated each time it is
> requested (this could be optimised later if it seems worthwhile).

;)

> If we
> have that kind of base then, beyond that, there are lots of directions
> you could go to build into a larger project if this doesn't seem a big
> enough project. This could include the periodic report creation or
> notification, or perhaps plotting the data.

Especially when it comes to data visualizations I look forward to put
all those values in our «almost ready» charts . Any kinds of data
tables would be enough , since our library is able to transform such
data sets into «meaningful» (wrt the chart) data. Variations can be
handled in a relatively easy way .

> It would be interesting to
> hear what else you can come up with though.
>

we are two , in the queue ;)

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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