Tim pointed out that it's worth travelling simply for the new timezone in your
debian/changelog entries.
We can use
AptFs to work out who has collected the most so far:
import os
import glob
import itertools
import collections
from dateutil.parser import parse
from debian.changelog import Changelog
data = collections.defaultdict(set)
for package in glob.glob('/apt/*'):
if os.path.islink(package):
continue # Consider source packages only
try:
changelog = Changelog(open('%s/debian/changelog' % package))
except:
continue # Ignore invalid changelogs
for entry in changelog:
try:
data[entry.author].add(parse(entry.date).strftime('%z'))
except ValueError:
pass # Ignore invalid dates
fn = lambda x: len(x[1])
top = sorted(data.items(), key=fn, reverse=True)
for k, g in itertools.groupby(top, key=fn):
print "\n%d timezone(s):" % k
for author, timezones in sorted(g):
print " * %s (%s)" % (
author.encode('utf8', 'ignore'),
', '.join(sorted(timezones, reverse=True)),
)
14 timezone(s):
* Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> (-0800, -0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, -0300,
+1300, +1100, +1030, +0900, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
12 timezone(s):
* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (-1000, -0900, -0800, -0700, -0500, -0400,
-0300, -0200, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
11 timezone(s):
* Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> (-0400, -0300, +1300, +1100, +1000, +0930,
+0900, +0800, +0200, +0100, +0000)
9 timezone(s):
* Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> (-0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, +0500,
+0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (-1000, -0700, -0300, +1100, +1000,
+0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
* Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> (-0800, -0700, -0600, -0500, -0400, +0300,
+0200, +0100, +0000)
* Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> (-0700, -0500, -0400, -0300,
+0930, +0300, +0200, +0100, +0000)
Full output.
However, something tells me we aren't going to see widespread gamification of Debian development.