Hello Emilian, We could possibily use GA with events for that. Of course if anybody wants to investigate the legal/privacy part (and all the impacts accross all countries which highly differ ) and volunteer code why not. You should create a bugzilla so that it's in our records.
Regards On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't discard this because it needs work. There must be some way > to get some data and still preserve privacy (see Apple's Differential > Privacy and Google's RAPPOR[1] paper). > > 1. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/ > archive/42852.pdf > > --emi > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Philippe Mouawad > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Emilian, > > In the past it was possible through Apache to know number of downloads. > > With mirrors it appears we lost this precious (IMO) info. > > > > What you propose is a good idea but there are many issues: > > - privacy if we use something like GA > > - all users behind enterprise proxies or with a bad network > > - plus amount of work > > > > For now we use: > > - number of issues reported > > - questions on SO and mailing lists > > > > IMO, we should concentrate our efforts on: > > - http2 support > > - fix on undo/redo . With your experience of Netbeans , would you have an > > idea for that missing and always requested feature > > - fix caching of resources in already cached resources > > > > Thanks for your recent works ! > > Regards > > > > On Thursday, July 20, 2017, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was wondering about how many users / downloads does JMeter have and > >> I couldn't find such information except indirectly via the usage > >> statistics from http://www.jmeter-plugins.org/stats/ > >> > >> Just yesterday we were discussing about MongoDB support which is > >> deprecated since it's not used very much but usage is measured > >> indirectly from support questions. > >> > >> Are there any other sources of such info? > >> > >> I believe it would be healthy for JMeter to actively measure such > >> usage info in order to better decide the future. > >> > >> A while back NetBeans measured anonymously various metrics in order to > >> prioritise work. Information such as this > >> http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/graph/projecttypes.jsp and > >> this http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/graph/databaseservers.jsp > >> and this http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/graph/ > technologies.jsp > >> help determine which plugin deserves extra attention and which is > >> heading towards deprecation. > >> > >> So, we should think about how we could implement something like this > >> while respecting the Apache rules surrounding user data. > >> > >> --emi > >> > > > > > > -- > > Cordialement. > > Philippe Mouawad. > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
