Sounds like a good idea. Do you know which projects are trying that so we could take a look?
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 1:38 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Download Analytics (was Re: Very high FlexJS installer error rate (98+%)) On 10/19/14, 10:13 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: >There's no way of telling if people download anything after going to that >page but it would be safe to assume that a proportion of them do. That’s a good segue to a broader topic. Some projects are trying to get analytics on downloads by doctoring the mirror page you get when you choose a package from one of our download pages. For example, the sdk binaries download page has the following link that displays a list of mirrors [1]. I haven’t looked at the details, but I think idea is that the mirror links go through google analytics on their way to the mirror. Of course it doesn’t show you if someone didn’t complete the download or didn’t finish an install, or hit a mirror directly, but it would be more data. Should we try to do this as well? Anyone want to volunteer to do it? An alternative is to modify future installer.xml ant scripts to hit google analytics instead of having the installer do it. Ant-based installs probably can’t give us unexpected failure tracking since Ant just basically exits, but with more work I think we can have the Ant scripts hit the analytics for bad downloads. Then we would know how many folks are using Ant to install the releases. -Alex [1] http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flex/4.13.0/binaries/apache-flex-sdk-4 .13.0-bin.tar.gz
