[PATCH 13 of 14] docs/usage: rework section on statistics
Thomas De Schampheleire
patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 15:12:07 EDT 2015
# HG changeset patch
# User Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
# Date 1428262946 -7200
# Sun Apr 05 21:42:26 2015 +0200
# Node ID f2b41f2bca44af2bc0cf6e5b57ca6ea31dc2636b
# Parent bb1a96bc2be5430923e85f9997ee42f24e81861a
docs/usage: rework section on statistics
diff --git a/docs/usage/statistics.rst b/docs/usage/statistics.rst
--- a/docs/usage/statistics.rst
+++ b/docs/usage/statistics.rst
@@ -1,33 +1,31 @@
.. _statistics:
-==========
-Statistics
-==========
+=====================
+Repository statistics
+=====================
-The Kallithea statistics system makes heavy demands of the server resources, so
-in order to keep a balance between usability and performance, the statistics are
-cached inside db and are gathered incrementally. This is how Kallithea does
-this:
+Kallithea has a ``repository statistics`` feature, disabled by default. When
+enabled, the amount of commits per committer is visualized in a timeline. This
+feature can be enabled using the ``Enable statistics`` checkbox on the
+repository ``Settings`` page.
-With Celery disabled
---------------------
+The statistics system makes heavy demands on the server resources, so
+in order to keep a balance between usability and performance, statistics are
+cached inside the database and gathered incrementally.
-- On each first visit to the summary page a set of 250 commits are parsed and
- updates statistics cache.
-- This happens on each single visit to the statistics page until all commits are
- fetched. Statistics are kept cached until additional commits are added to the
+When Celery is disabled:
+
+ On each first visit to the summary page a set of 250 commits are parsed and
+ added to the statistics cache. This incremental gathering also happens on each
+ visit to the statistics page, until all commits are fetched.
+
+ Statistics are kept cached until additional commits are added to the
repository. In such a case Kallithea will only fetch the new commits when
- updating its cache.
+ updating its statistics cache.
+When Celery is enabled:
-With Celery enabled
--------------------
-
-- On the first visit to the summary page Kallithea will create tasks that will
- execute on Celery workers. This task will gather all of the stats until all
- commits are parsed, each task will parse 250 commits, and run the next task to
- parse the next 250 commits until all of the commits are parsed.
-
-.. note::
- At any time you can disable statistics on each repository via the repository
- edit form in the admin panel. To do this just uncheck the statistics checkbox.
+ On the first visit to the summary page, Kallithea will create tasks that will
+ execute on Celery workers. These tasks will gather all of the statistics until
+ all commits are parsed. Each task parses 250 commits, then launches a new
+ task.
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