On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we transitioned cloudstack.org to the Apache Incubator site, we no > longer have any analytics running on CloudStack.org. > > I wanted to ask whether we'd like to remedy that. > > The first question is - would we like to set up something like Google > Analytics or Piwik to track visitors to CloudStack.org and also gather > information on what pages they visit, how long they stay, where they > came from, etc. > > The second question, if the answer to the first one is "yes," is what > we'd like to use?
I think this could be very useful - especially measuring things over longer periods of time. So there are two questions in my mind that we need to define: First, what are we specifically seeking to track. (you said a number of things including: what pages folks visit, how long they stay, where they came from) I can think of several ways of thinking about each of those, and have seen a number of implementations. I am leary of some of the extreme examples (I've seen some tracking platforms that will identify specific individuals browsing, their email address, name etc all based on other sites, tracking every page they visited, etc.). I also realize this is somewhat platform specific. That said, I personally would like to see this fleshed out a bit more to detail the specific information we went to track. This is also important from a project perspective IMO because we want meaningful statistics that provide useful information about both the usefulness and ease of operation of our various web properties, but also a perspective into the relative health of the community. Second: If we go down this route, who gets access to it and what are they permitted to do with it? Do we make it all public? Do we permit only committers, or only PPMC members to have access? Once they have access, (whoever the 'they' is decided to be) what are the expectations we make with regards to the use of the data. Are people allowed to share it? with whom? People allowed to make commercial use of the data or tell other people about the data? Also - (this isn't a question but rather a statement) it is important to note that the ASF has servers (that serve the CS site) in the EU and thus we do have some constraints on exactly what and how we can collect information. --David
