[QGIS-Developer] User platform tracking, was No LTR on SUSE repos

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

<sorry I hijacked the original thread>

> On 9 Apr 2019, at 14:49, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 09.04.19 um 10:54 schrieb Tim Sutton:
>> This thread is another good reason why we need some user metrics and why our users would benefit from it - we currently have a very poor grasp of the distribution of our users across geographies and platforms.
> 
> For operating systems like FreeBSD the QGIS ports only fetch source tarballs[1][2]. Prebuilt packages are delivered by FreeBSD servers themselve.
> 
> It seems difficult to get such statistical informations from OSes like FreeBSD. Any ideas?

Well we have been discussing for a while to implement the new welcome screen[1] and do some (opt-in) tracking of user platform there…. 

[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/102 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/102>

Regards

Tim

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