#chef @ Freenode stats by coderanger

Statistics generated on Wednesday 18 February 2026 - 3:03:24
During this 2895-day reporting period, a total of 15259 different nicks were represented on #chef.

#chef (all-time)#chef (week)#chef (month)#chef (year)#chef-hacking

Most active times
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0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Number of WordsWords per lineChars per lineLast seenRandom quote
1 coderanger7413714665337896624643277084110.459.94 days ago"`scl enable rh-python27 -- pip list`"
2 cheeseplus3808919682763194331392542055011.062.119 days ago"there is a #windows channel there too"
3 jtimberman171013047752364381624049.557.626 days ago"try in your test, the `it` block?"
4 hoover_damm137274366348758051167698.547.2868 days ago"how do you notify (or subscribe) to a package resource to notify"
5 miah124721828324571101014068.146.253 days ago"i'd first start by s/master/leader and s/slave/follower"
6 yfeldblum1232311955275679492218522815.091.8747 days ago"glen, it's an example to learn from, not to copy-paste from"
7 fujin852225155822755150650867.644.1277 days ago"try managing a reverse proxy or ssh daemon configuration"
8 jbz7530378340237039647312.872.31256 days ago"notifies :run, 'execute[test-script]', :immediately"
9 Damm6723242313292962534097.943.31605 days ago"your chef-repo should be a bare sham"
10 cwj6664627308128927679011.567.5333 days ago"is it still reasonable to expect that 'knife client edit foo' sho"
11 zts63834992437283161611740918.4107.9678 days ago"Guest18397: contacting Chef support is probably best - the commun"
12 lusis6361241125111404408266.435.11782 days ago"possibly. Not sure if they're ordered server side or not"
13 kallistec61911019254826167394911.969.4993 days ago"that'd be cool to have in core"
14 flaccid60793042130920515236255710.360.1806 days ago"hey guys are any peeps from sous-chefs around here typically?"
15 ssd754897661354183415358424715.388.848 days ago"(12.6 is required for the HA beta)"
16 BryanWB526686320551975373483389.252.0331 days ago"not afaik, sorry to clog the interwebd"
17 mattray498819523442449430218.652.21203 days ago"korishev: https://github.com/mattray/spiceweasel/tree/2.8"
18 spheromak47437476887282580439219.351.1236 days ago" f = file 'thing' do .... then use f.updated? cburroughs"
19 dgarstang4554154329995837012.874.8965 days ago"chef which doesn't scale very well"
20 someara450329021821946377628.451.5249 days ago"justizin you've seen the docker cookbook right?"
21 whiteadam4300561238813014297410.055.9983 days ago"MartinCleaver: Did you try another cookbook?"
22 Cope428299510551316916401119.452.2608 days ago"so it can insert that into the config file"
23 geekbri4247119289612196282514.881.8696 days ago"Is anybody here using a combination of chef / consul ?"
24 matti412117699318341118275406.739.8112 days ago"Anyway, this is something that I was looking into for fun."
25 gchristensen3965401132193614964523911.466.151 days ago"Hi, is there a way to convince chef's installer to use a self-ext"


These didn't make it to the top:
workmad3 (3903) Majost (3880) erikh (3497) jonlives (3461) shlant (3353)
Brad_K (3232) josephholsten (3202) bemu (3196) juliancdunn (3119) erratic (3119)
masterkorp (2923) holoway (2787) stormerider (2786) cnf (2690) bluepojo (2661)
c_t (2640) AntelopeSalad (2562) hoover_damn (2521) Otterley (2515) jmickle (2496)
sarkis (2479) atomic-penguin (2451) dyer (2450) jkeiser (2426) btm (2363)
gyoza (2362) chip- (2352) ranjibd (2334) BryanWB_ (2229) gyre007 (2203)

By the way, there were 15204 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is supercom32 stupid or just asking too many questions? 44.6% lines contained a question!
medya didn't know that much either. 42.6% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was PatrickBatman, who yelled 14.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was mlev, who shouted 12.9% of the time!
It seems that bawt's shift-key is hanging: 6.0% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <bawt> OK

gyoza just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 1.4% of the time.
LinuxHorn is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 3 times.
For example, like this:
     * LinuxHorn slaps bradgignac around a bit with a blotched appreciation

pabst^ can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 2 times.
Poor head, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 6 times.
For example, like this:
     * pabst^ beats head off desk

forehead seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 3 times.
laurent\ brings happiness to the world. 25.4% lines contained smiling faces. :)
workmad3 isn't a sad person either, smiling 24.5% of the time.
Kzim seems to be sad at the moment: 8.6% lines contained sad faces. :(
mlev is also a sad person, crying 8.4% of the time.
pedahzur wrote the longest lines, averaging 135.0 letters per line.
#chef average was 67.0 letters per line.
thehar wrote the shortest lines, averaging 30.7 characters per line.
gyoza was tight-lipped, too, averaging 30.8 characters.
coderanger spoke a total of 770841 words!
coderanger's faithful follower, cheeseplus, didn't speak so much: 420550 words.
abrookins wrote an average of 88.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.70 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 cookbook 54941 cheeseplus
2 there 46569 cheeseplus
3 server 35563 paul98
4 using 35452 acqant_
5 would 31725 _KaszpiR_
6 recipe 28219 acqant_
7 should 24989 cheeseplus
8 Thanks 24350 izghitu
9 which 21986 justizin
10 about 21438 ryan_

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 Chef 101308 cheeseplus
2 Knife 30819 paul98
3 will 25617 cheeseplus
4 coderanger 16943 gavit
5 new 13688 |aaron

Smileys :-)
 Smiley Number of Uses Last Used by
1 :) 29109 PaulVern
2 ;) 5567 jtimberman
3 :P 4049 coderanger
4 :( 3539 Death_Syn
5 :D 3521 double-p
6 :-) 2940 acqant_
7 :p 2020 double-p
8 :/ 1900 gilfoyle
9 (: 1818 Hoffman
10 ;-) 1338 JediMaster

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ 148 kumavis
2 https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh 146 Lockpick
3 http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Attributes 125 cpasmoi
4 http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/How+to+Contribute 89 xhae
5 http://berkshelf.com/ 81 lmc

Other interesting numbers
jorhett wasn't very popular, getting kicked 3 times!
For example, like this:
     *** jorhett was kicked by coderanger (Your behavior is not conducive to the desired environment.)

motuman seemed to be hated too: 2 kicks were received.
coderanger is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 20 people!
coderanger's faithful follower, fujin, kicked about 5 people.
ChanServ donated 10079 ops in the channel...
asimov.freenode.net was also very polite: 125 ops from him/her.
ChanServ is the channel sheriff with 11 deops.
matti deoped 7 users.
hoover_damm always lets us know what he/she's doing: 574 actions!
For example, like this:
     * hoover_damm will figure that out tomorrow

Also, jtimberman tells us what's up with 377 actions.
coderanger talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 278 times!
Another lonely one was hoover_damm, who managed to hit 238 times.
crazysix couldn't decide whether to stay or go. 8517 joins during this reporting period!
daschel has quite a potty mouth. 1.2% words were foul language.
thehar^home also makes sailors blush, 1.0% of the time.

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