[QGIS-Developer] New version notifications

[Tim Sutton]

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*.


* Assuming awstats can be believed to be a true reflection of users using QGIS and not bots etc.


Downloads	Hits	206 Hits	Bandwidth	Average size
	/version.txt <http://www.qgis.org/version.txt>	57,461,449	12	120.99 GB	2.21 KB


For me I am fine making it opt-in if that is what others prefer….

Regards

Tim


> On 4 Jun 2019, at 06:38, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> On 04/06/2019 07.11, Etienne Trimaille wrote:
>> In QGIS Settings -> "General", you can disable "Check QGIS version".
>> 
>> If you are deploying QGIS with an INI file, you can do it
>> programmatically. You can hide this checkbox because QGIS version is
>> managed by the system administrator.
>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#deploying-qgis-within-an-organization
>> 
>> Le mar. 4 juin 2019 à 06:55, Bernhard Ströbl <bernhard.stroebl at jena.de
>> <mailto:bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>> a écrit :
>> 
>>    On that occasion:
>> 
>>    how can I deactivate the new version information? I get frequent calls
>>    from my users asking if they need to do something. It's kind of
>>    annoying
>>    because we use LTS.
> 
> In my view, this should be DISabled by default, and being asked (at
> startup?) if the user wants this.
> 
> It is actually a 'phone home' mechanisme, which I personally dislike
> (even if developers developed it as 'service for users').
> 
> Quickmapservices plugin does the same (and stalls QGIS till timeout if
> you network/proxy issues).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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