[Qgis-developer] Download stats

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback on my suggestion. Personally, I rarely send in info
like that as well (especially not to Apple!). So, I'm not exactly excited
about such a 'feature'. Just thought I should mention it as a means of
collecting data.

Couple of notes:

* An annoyance is something that happens often and users have to tolerate
(see Windows). I clearly proposed that such a tool only launch once on
first run of a new version (i.e., a major version like 2.0, not 2.0.1).
Users would probably not see the dialog again for at least 6-12 months, not
exactly annoying.

* Data like this is very useful. For example: there has been a couple of
attempts to define what the base required Qt version should be for 2.0
(still unresolved). Research on different versions shipping with different
Linux distributions was done, but there is zero data on how many users
actually use QGIS on those platforms. If we knew less than 1% (even from
the profiler's sampling) used Qt 4.5 or 4.6, it would weigh on whether to
set the base requirement to 4.6 or 4.7.


However, +1 for Régis's idea of having a crash reporter, or at least a
means of generating an output text file with anonymous app data for
manually sending to developers or the issue tracker to help debug user
issues.

Regards,

Larry


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Régis Haubourg <
regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:

> Hi All,
> as a user, I don't really like tools that collect info over the net. Even
> if
> I trust QGIS community and it is Open Source, I know that some could find
> it
> suspicious.
> Estimated stats on server side are sufficient to me. Quality, stability,
> and
> maybe a way to reference how much fundig/ bid efforts   grow up could be a
> perfect approach of QGIS health and maturity. I must say that on french
> geomatics forum, QGIS thread have be growing so much these times, i don't
> have any doubt.
>
> As a GIS administrator, I would really like to be able to collect stat of
> what my users do, what datasource they use, plugin, how much projects, how
> often. That would help me to target courses, data adminsitration efforts
> and
> fundings for improvements. *Do you think I can achieve that with a python
> plugin? *
> I would also like to monitor qgis processes, (memory, cpu, write and read
> files, web access stats...), but I think my sys admin is the good guy to do
> this
>
> *One thing maybe missing is crash automatic report to help diagnosing
> recurrent crashes.  Thoughts? *
>
>
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