<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Could we know more about those downloads, like for example their OS? I believe that is probably a better guess of our user base than the downloads.</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>Thanks<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:47 AM Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com">tim@kartoza.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Interestingly our web stats tracker shows version.txt being hit 57.5 million times in 2018 - which is a pretty useful indication of the amount of usage QGIS gets. Even if you divide that by 365 it would reflect around 157428 daily active users*.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>* Assuming awstats can be believed to be a true reflection of users using QGIS and not bots etc.</div><div><br><div><br><div><table class="gmail-m_-401359515225955976aws_data" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border-width:1px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;text-align:center" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#ECECEC"><th colspan="2" style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:1px 2px 1px 1px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Downloads</th><th style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:1px 2px 1px 1px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal" width="80" bgcolor="#66DDEE">Hits</th><th style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:1px 2px 1px 1px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal" width="80" bgcolor="#66DDEE">206 Hits</th><th style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:1px 2px 1px 1px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal" width="80" bgcolor="#2EA495">Bandwidth</th><th style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;padding:1px 2px 1px 1px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal" width="80" bgcolor="#2EA495">Average size</th></tr><tr><td style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal" width="32"><img alt="" title="" id="gmail-m_-40135951522595597678863D51-98A3-4ADF-8881-26F5B6D411A4" src="cid:16b22c20f0bc41c81e81"></td><td class="gmail-m_-401359515225955976aws" style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:left;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.qgis.org/version.txt" style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,17,187);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">/version.txt</a></td><td style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">57,461,449</td><td style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">12</td><td style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">120.99 GB</td><td style="border-color:rgb(236,236,236);border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">2.21 KB</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For me I am fine making it opt-in if that is what others prefer….</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 4 Jun 2019, at 06:38, Richard Duivenvoorde <<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-401359515225955976Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>On 04/06/2019 07.11, Etienne Trimaille wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">In QGIS Settings -> "General", you can disable "Check QGIS version".<br><br>If you are deploying QGIS with an INI file, you can do it<br>programmatically. You can hide this checkbox because QGIS version is<br>managed by the system administrator.<br><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#deploying-qgis-within-an-organization" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#deploying-qgis-within-an-organization</a><br><br>Le mar. 4 juin 2019 à 06:55, Bernhard Ströbl <<a href="mailto:bernhard.stroebl@jena.de" target="_blank">bernhard.stroebl@jena.de</a><br><mailto:<a href="mailto:bernhard.stroebl@jena.de" target="_blank">bernhard.stroebl@jena.de</a>>> a écrit :<br><br> On that occasion:<br><br> how can I deactivate the new version information? I get frequent calls<br> from my users asking if they need to do something. It's kind of<br> annoying<br> because we use LTS.<br></blockquote><br>In my view, this should be DISabled by default, and being asked (at<br>startup?) if the user wants this.<br><br>It is actually a 'phone home' mechanisme, which I personally dislike<br>(even if developers developed it as 'service for users').<br><br>Quickmapservices plugin does the same (and stalls QGIS till timeout if<br>you network/proxy issues).<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Richard Duivenvoorde<br>_______________________________________________<br>QGIS-Developer mailing list<br><a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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