[Qgis-developer] QGIS update available plugin and/or ping back plugin

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 03-08-15 10:23, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> Given the following plan, does that guarantee enough privacy for people
> who were against it earlier:
> 
> - during first creation of .qgis2 user folder (upon first installation)
> we generate some uuid (based on currentime+somerandom)
> - upon later startups QGIS fires a HTTP GET request to a webserver which
> contains this UUID + the language + current version used
> - this request is handled by a separate apache or nginx server which
> does nothing more then logging this, and returning the (for that branch)
> latest version. Which is checked for by QGIS
> - by simple analysing the logs (grepping) we can have some info about
> our user-base (number of installs given a period of time) and even a
> live 'currently QGISsing'-guess :-)
> 
> Can privacy concerning people live with this plan?

First, an HTTP POST request seems more appropriate.

Please make this feature easy to disable in the build, we get quite a
number of bugreports in Debian about software that phones home, having
an easy option to disable it very helpful in that respect.

KInd Regards,

Bas

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