svn commit: r1691823 - /comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py

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Author: sebb
Date: Sun Jul 19 12:42:34 2015
New Revision: 1691823

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1691823
Log:
Docs

Modified:
    comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py

Modified: comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py?rev=1691823&r1=1691822&r2=1691823&view=diff
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--- comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py (original)
+++ comdev/projects.apache.org/scripts/cronjobs/countaccounts.py Sun Jul 19 12:42:34 2015
@@ -15,6 +15,30 @@ Updates:
 using the output from
 ldapsearch -x -LLL -b ou=people,dc=apache,dc=org createTimestamp
 
+e.g.
+dn: uid=hboutemy,ou=people,dc=apache,dc=org
+createTimestamp: 20090519192255Z
+
+Note that the createTimestamp is when the record was (re)created.
+Since LDAP was introduced some while after the ASF started,
+the stamps for early committers are likely to be completely wrong.
+
+For example, the entry above shows that the LDAP account was created
+in May 2009. 
+However the user account was actually created in Oct 2007 
+according to the history for iclas.txt. And the ICLA is from Sep 2007
+(which agrees with the iclas.txt date).
+ALso his earliest commit Maven SVN is r585237 | hboutemy | 2007-10-16 
+
+It is not clear why the createTimestamp for this account should be more
+than 2 years earlier.
+
+LDAP was introduced around May/June 2009.
+The earliest  createTimestamp is 20090519192238Z
+
+Hopefully recent timestamps give a better indication of when an account
+was actually created.
+
 The output file consists of lines of the form:
 {
 "1999-02": 22,