no objection from me, whatever help you guys improve the tools, helps me ;)
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Andrei Chis <chisvasileand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In order to better understand how people use the GT tools we would like to > integrate, before the Pharo code freeze, a small extension to GT tools (300 > lines of code) that records and sends usage data. > > The recording of data will be opt-out: *you have to explicitly agree with > sending usage data*. > The first time you open a GT tool, that tool will embed a small UI asking > you if you want to enable data submission. > We will save the setting in the your preference directory so it will be > shared between all your local images. > You can change this setting at any time from the Settings Browser. > > For now we will only like to collect data about Spotter. > *By default we will only collect anonymous data *about various actions > you do in spotter (open, close, search, dive-in, dive-out, select element, > etc) without collecting any data what about what query you enter or what > search results you get. > We would also add an optional setting for sending the query text and > selected elements. > > We will send then the data periodically to our server and when you close > the image. > > The data that will be send is rather small: 1000 actions require 7kb of > data. > Thus sending an entire day worth of recordings, if all you did that day > was searching, should be around 1MB of data. > > The recording does not influence the performance of Spotter. Spotter > already generates all events of interest as announcements. > To enable recording we just register a subscriber with the Spotter > announcer and store the events of interest. > > We would like to get your opinion on this. > > > Cheers, > GT team > >
