On Oct 28, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > sounds cool to me, I'd love to have such a graph on XWiki.org to showcase > the community around XWiki :-) I guess in the future we could also send the geographical coordinates and plot a worldwide map to know where XWiki users are located ;) Thanks -Vincent > Maybe we could add an option in the preference to deactivate this feature > for users who'd prefer nor providing this type of information? > > Guillaume > > On Fri, 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
