In reply to Luca Fracassi.

Hi Luca,

There's sort of two threads here:

1) A one time dump of data. I think this is pretty hard to do without some hypothesis of what the data is to be analyzed for. There is lots of data, but it is hard to know how to clean it without knowing what it will be used for. Right now most of the discussion is just generically about "open data". If there are requests for specific data, I'm happy to engage in those discussions with the data I have access to. I would bet that all Automatticians feel the same way.

2) Building an automated system. This is a big project and won't be in place in time to get any useful data for the current focuses. As a comparison, Automattic had a dedicated team of 4-6 developers who spent 1-2 years on our tracking system. It continues to need multiple people to maintain it and uses a lot of servers.

Even for the simpler system that I floated in October, it would be a lot of work, and take quite a while (years?) to have a big impact. Assuming we can't make decisions without such a system seems like a distraction from building a better editing and customization experience.