It's because you've passed in that string (which was good) as one argument to the SSH command, which is then read as multiple arguments on the remote server. This works for me, adding double quotes around the remote command: ssh -p 29418 gerrit.wikimedia.org "gerrit query 'age:4d -age:34d status:merged project:^mediawiki.* -owner:L10n-bot'" -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

I'd like to confirm that number, 92 unique contributors in June is absolutely correct. I've also scriptified my method, so now I can do multiple months. Month | Unique contributors ------------+-------------------- July so far | 60 ------------+-------------------- June | 92 ------------+-------------------- May | 77 ------------+-------------------- April | 67 ------------+-------------------- March | 34 ------------+-------------------- February | 2 A note or two: July is high because we have a lot of regular committers, I suppose. You could confirm that by graphing how many contributors are added by adding on one day at a time. My guess is you'll get a nice steep line at first that tapers out to nearly 0 at the end of 30 days. Also, I'm sure the earlier months have inadequate sample sizes to be relevant, since the extensions had to take some time to transfer over, and apparently February was just for testing. Of course, the coolest thing is that each month so far has seen at least 10 additional contributors! :) The script I used to generate it is attached (since it's only 1.1 kb). If you have a sane SSH setup already, you should be able to make it executable and do.... $ ./gerunique "ssh -p 29418 gerrit.wikimedia.org" 0d 30d ....and get the number of contributors for the past 30 days. It will also give you some friendly notifications, though they're largely for debugging. The first option can be described as "how you would ssh into gerrit if you had to", and it's provided for the convenience of those people (like me) whose local username doesn't match their remote username. Cheers, -- Mark Holmquist Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org http://marktraceur.info

It also doesn't count people who are making operations changes, or Wikimedia site configuration changes, or are packaging debs, etc, etc. It would be awesome to see stats for those as well. I have a feeling that we have more contributors then the record ;). - Ryan