On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > I've started a design page for this at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ActiveInstalls > (and created the jira issue at http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-9401) > > Compared to the original proposal and after talking to Thomas we agreed that > this should be done independently of the EM module. > > WDYT of the architecture? I've now implemented the first version of it and I'm ready to commit it in platform. If nobody objects, I'll add this for 5.2M2 in the coming days before the 9th (going to do some cleanup before committing). Thanks -Vincent > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> I think it would be great to have some indication of how many active >> instances of XWiki are out there in the wild. The idea is not so much to >> know the figure but to see how this figures evolves and thus to see if we're >> doing things right. It will also give us information about how quickly or >> slowly our user base upgrades from version to version. >> >> Here's my proposal: >> >> * When installing XWiki on a clean DB (ie first time install) generate a >> unique id and store it in the DB (similar to the version we're storing in >> the DB but using some UUID). Thus when an install is upgraded the same id is >> preserved. >> * When the Extension Manager is used and thus connects to >> extensions.xwiki.org (default extension repository), this unique ID is sent >> too. >> * In addition the version of XE is sent too >> * On extensions.xwiki.org side, we only log the unique ID/XE version >> **without** logging the IP or any other information thus ensuring that the >> ID remains completely anonymous >> * We display a counter on xwiki.org about the # of active instances of XE >> with a graph about XE versions used >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
