Sam Reed had asked me to help him understand how to query the Bugzilla API so that he could use it in reporting during the rollouts of new code.

I've already got a PHP library that I wrote (in SVN still: https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/bugzilla/client/) so I used that to write a simple script to query the API several times and print the counts for each query.

The commented script is here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/115632

Since I was the only real user of this code (until now), I didn't write any documentation, but if there is some interest, then I can start working on that.

Mark.