Taking over the Analytic namespace

Project URL: https://www.drupal.org/project/analytic

I want to take over the Analytic namespace and build an analytic system, a module.

I am the maintainer of the Visitors project. It records web analytics; every page view is recorded. The reports use the raw data, which prevent annonymizing the data. If I can store the results in an analytic table the raw logs can be deleted. I have done some initial work in a Visitors issue.

https://www.drupal.org/project/visitors
https://www.drupal.org/project/visitors/issues/2990230

The aim is to have a generic system that other projects, not just Visitors, can use to store analytics and build reports.

All data will be stored in tables using the schema below. The table names will follow this pattern analytic_YYYYMM.

A custom Views query plugin FULL JOIN the table on itself, allowing each "plugin" (column) to be treated as a different field it the Views UI.

This same custom query plugin will UNION the required analytic_YYYYMM tables for a given time range.