I second many of helix’s points Storing Stats data in an external product relies on that product to be around - something that google does not guarantee
Whether to use google analytics for anything other than getting nice stats right now very much depends on whether google provides a data export option. Does it ? I don’t know. DSPACE is already a rather big system. The more you keep features separated the better. So having minimal stats support in the core seems to me the most flexible and viable option. Identify core events and log them somehow - maybe as a side effect of sending stats to solr. My gut tells me: logging to the file system in some format that is easily digested is the way to go. This approach requires no configuration, there is no other application that has to be up and running for event logs to reach their destination. Right now DSPACE traces stuff in dspace.log - but as far as I can tell - log messages are not normalized and not so easy to digest. Monika ________________ Monika Mevenkamp phone: 609-258-4161 Lewis Library,Washington Road and Ivy Lane, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
