[QGIS-Developer] New version notifications

[Paolo Cavallini]

Interesting data, thanks Tim!
Cheers.

On 04/06/19 12:46, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 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
>> <mailto: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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