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.

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