On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, TJ Frazier <tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: >> On 2/27/2012 17:13, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Roberto >>> Galoppini<rgalopp...@geek.net>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> The main site at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ seems to >>>> have a weird Google Analytics setup. It has a local copy of the GA >>>> javascript instead of using the real one. >>> >>> >>> >>> well this is a bit odd. Maybe some no longer current implementation. >>> >>> Do you know to who belongs >>>> >>>> that? >>>> >>>> If you're ok with that we might get rid of that and create a new one, >>>> so that we can all have a better understanding of the traffic streams. >>>> >>>> Roberto >> >> [...] >> >> >>> I don't know anything about the current setup. I, personally, would >>> certainly be fine with changing it. >>> >> The site tracks downloads by extension per day, week, month, and year (no >> idea how; script-related?), and displays these for users. If it gathers >> anything else, nobody is listening. >> > > We discussed enabling Google Analytics site-wide (within the project) > several months ago. There was no consensus at that time to enable it. > Some Apache projects use it and find it useful. Others don't use it > at all. There are some privacy implications [1], and feelings vary on > whether or not having Google Analytics enabled is a net good thing. > Personally, I like it. But if we are to use it then we need to make > sure our privacy policy / terms of use document reflects this. > > But until we've had that higher level discussion and agreement, I'd be > more comfortable if we simply commented out or removed the tracking > code for now.
For the time being we deactived the Drupal module managing GA IDs. So said, it maybe useful to have as much information as possible about website traffic and we are open to create and share a new GA ID if you eventually decide to get it back. Roberto > > [1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html > >> /tj/ ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
