IIRC google analytics was one of the few ways Josh and I were able to look at the size of the "lurker population" for the project back when we tried to get a grasp on how the community was doing back in 2014.
What will we do as an alternative for checking interest in the project expressed as website visits? When one of us wants to redesign or optimize parts of the website how will we know what works and what doesn't? I think GDPR is also a good reason to keep the existing analytics install. Any alternative we come up with will have to comply and I'm pretty sure the Google Analytics team is in a better position to do that then the Accumulo community is. On 2018/11/02 20:54:59, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we should remove it. Given greater user concern over privacy > lately (with things like GDPR), and the fact that it we don't really > *need* the info (does anybody check the reports regularly?), I'd > prefer to just remove it. Infra was also discussing this: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1604a4cb92120eb5daab35aeaa9dda9aee461f8f644ab58ff0bc891a@%3Cusers.infra.apache.org%3E > and there seemed to be some wider community consensus in that thread > that we probably just shouldn't do it. > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:25 PM Mike Walch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I created a pull request to remove Google Analytics tracking from the > > project website (https://accumulo.apache.org): > > > > https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/pull/128 > > > > If you think Google Analytics should remain, please reply to this email or > > comment on the pull request. >
