Hi Martijn, big +1 for this effort. Thanks a lot for pushing this initiative forward!
Cheers, Till On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:49 AM Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Martijn, > > I think this is a great initiative. Thank you for pursuing this. It allows > us to > > a) generate better insights into the usage of Apache Flink and its > documentation as shown in the video > a) do this in a privacy preserving way and > c) act as a role model for other Apache projects on this matter > > Big +1. I am happy to help, if I can. > > Cheers, > > Konstantin > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:21 AM Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > The Flink website currently uses Google Analytics to track how visitors > of > > the website are interacting with it. It provides insights into which > > documentation pages are visited, how users are using the website (what's > > the cycle of pages they visit before exiting the page), if they are > > downloading Flink etc. However, the Apache Software Foundation > discourages > > using Google Analytics [1] unless meeting certain requirements. The Flink > > website currently does not meet those requirements. > > > > I do believe that it's useful to understand what parts of a website are > > important to users, what features are most frequently read up on, where > > they get lost in the docs, etc. so we can better understand how users use > > the system, the website, and the docs and where to focus improvements > next. > > > > I would like to move the Flink website from Google Analytics to an > > alternative as soon as possible for Flink. I would be in favour of > opening > > up insights to this data for everyone too, it's public data anyway. > > > > For the past couple of months, I've been engaging in a conversation with > > ASF Legal and ASF Infra about setting up a privacy-friendly alternative > for > > Google Analytics for all ASF projects via the priv...@apache.org mailing > > list (I can't find a public web archive link for this unfortunately). As > > part of that discussion, I've done a test with the open source and > > self-hosted version of Matomo [2], taking a look at the privacy > > implications and the functionality that this tool offers. You can watch a > > recording of that experiment [3] and view the test setup I've used [4]. > > > > The current status is that ASF Legal, ASF Infra and I have agreed to take > > the next step on this project. This step means that: > > > > * I set up Matomo on a VM provided by ASF Infra > > * A new DNS name is created (either https://analytics.apache.org/ or > > https://matomo.analytics.apache.org/) by ASF Infra > > * The Flink website is adjusted to remove the tracking from Google > > Analytics and include the necessary Javascript to allow tracking of the > > Flink website and documentation in Matomo > > > > If this test would be successful, ASF Infra would take over the hosting > of > > this solution and provide it to all ASF projects. > > > > I would like to understand from the Flink community: > > > > 1. Do you think this is a good idea? > > > > 2. If yes, I need a couple of PMCs for requesting a VM from Apache Infra > > [5] > > > > Best regards, > > > > Martijn > > https://twitter.com/MartijnVisser82 > > > > [1] https://privacy.apache.org/faq/committers.html > > [2] https://matomo.org/ > > [3] > > > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yomYhLoyrzBW620bpn_dROiwyvSCzuvt/view?usp=sharing > > [4] https://github.com/MartijnVisser/matomo-analytics > > [5] https://infra.apache.org/vm-for-project.html > > > > > -- > > Konstantin Knauf > > https://twitter.com/snntrable > > https://github.com/knaufk >
