On 07.05.2012 16:02, Daniel Gruno wrote: > With an impressive 8 x +1 binding votes and no -1's, as well as +2 from > other docs@ readers, I believe we can call this vote passed with flying > colors :).
Apologies for being late with this, but the specifics of the currently used implementation (Disqus) only caught my attention after the Google Analytics "trial" this week. I very much appreciate the recent work on improving the docs and would by no means want to dampen that enthusiasm. Adding a commentary system also seems like a completely reasonable step to me (provided that the comments are moderated before appearing on the site). Looking at the call for votes [retained below for reference] and at the votes, I'm not sure if the +1 voters were aware of the specific "mechanics" of the Disqus comment system which is now embedded into all HTML below http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/ [1], however. Effectively, using Disqus means that even visiting an "innocent" page like http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/license.html will already result in all sorts of "drive-by" tracking requests [2], among them Google Analytics (pulled in via httpd.disqus.com/thread.js). Based on the fact that there's currently no privacy policy for httpd.apache.org - which would make visitors aware of being tracked (and link to both the Disqus privacy policy [3] and the GA privacy policy [4]) - I believe that the vote should be repeated, with being recast to: [+/-1] Add the Disqus commentary system to the trunk documentation. As an interim measure, I also think it would be wise to revert the changes applied in r1335029/r1335773, for the time being. Kaspar [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1335029 [2] URI host names: httpd.disqus.com, www.google-analytics.com, pixel.quantserve.com, b.scorecardresearch.com, juggler.services.disqus.com, mediacdn.disqus.com [3] http://docs.disqus.com/help/30/ (which states, inter alia: "This Privacy Policy was first published and made effective on May 9, 2012" - which makes you wonder what they had in place before that date...) [4] http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ > On 04-05-2012 15:58, Daniel Gruno wrote: >> I'll be a bad boy and top-post on this reply, as well as add dev@ to the >> list of recipients. >> >> In docs@, we have been discussing the possibility of adding comments to >> the various pages in our documentation. As the discussion has >> progressed, we have settled on the idea of trying out Disqus as a >> commentary system for the documentation, and I have authored a proposal >> on the practical implementation of this. >> >> As this is a rather large change to the documentation (if passed), Eric >> Covener advised me to notify both mailing lists as well as give a bit >> more information on how exactly this will work and why we felt it was a >> good idea to try out a commenting system. That information is located at >> http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DocsCommentSystem >> >> We have, to give it a test spin, rolled out these proposed changed to >> the rewrite section of the trunk documentation, >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/ (do note that the >> mod_rewrite reference document is NOT a part of this test), and we'd >> very much like you to review these changes and let us know what you >> think of this solution. If everybody is happy about it, we can try to >> roll it out on a bit more pages, and see how it is received by the >> general population. >> >> So, I am calling a vote on whether or not to proceed with rolling out >> this test to a portion of our trunk documentation for further testing. >> >> >> [+/-1] Add commentary system to the trunk documentation. >> >> With regards, >> Daniel. >> >
