+1 On the 0x351 day of Apache Harmony Tim Ellison wrote: > Yuri Dolgov wrote: > > I think this is a great idea. I used this tool in my personal blog and found > > it very much. > > BTW could I ask you to grant me access for harmony.apache.org analytics > > results? > > Hello Yuri, let's just wait a bit longer to see if anyone objects to the > idea first. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > On 9/14/07, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alex Blewitt wrote: > >>> I've used it for both my personal site and it's also used for > >>> EclipseZone. Can be quite useful, especially seeing historical and > >>> spikes in trends (e.g. does it go up because a new version of Harmony > >>> is packaged with Eclipse?). > >> Yep, I was also thinking of the discussions that have taken place here > >> amongst the website folk about trying different designs, and figuring > >> out how to best layout the site. Hopefully it would help them with some > >> concrete data. > >> > >>> It involves putting some 'pingback' JavaScript code on the website; > >>> there may be some people morally opposed to doing that, or to going to > >>> a site that has it. I suspect Google may be more trusted than other > >>> sites, but there may also be people who dislike any kind of site > >>> tracking (but then, they'll use NoScript, right?) > >> Yep, I have to admit I have a slight unease about 'secretly' tracking > >> people browsing a website, but I guess it is no different to the data > >> that is already being collected in the weblogs. > >> > >>> Does Apache (generally) have policies in this place regarding such > >>> tracking or advertising in Apache pages that might come into play? > >> The option of tracking seems to be left to the discretion of the project > >> themselves. It has been discussed on a couple of lists, and a number of > >> well established ASF projects are using it. I don't think there is a > >> formal policy. > >> > >> Advertising is different, and there is a stronger opinion about any form > >> of advertising or kick-backs to project supporters (e.g. displaying a > >> logo in return for a license). I'm not advocating that we get into that > >> game here. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Tim > >> > >> > >>> On 13/09/2007, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I see that a number of other projects are using Google Analytics to > >>>> measure the effectiveness of their website layout (e.g., can people > >> find > >>>> the info they need?) and popularity of pages and downloads (e.g., are > >>>> the most popular pages prominent?). > >>>> > >>>> The details of how it works are here [1], but in essence it is a piece > >>>> of tracking javascript we install in our web pages. > >>>> > >>>> Seeing the results would require a Google account, and I suggest we > >>>> limit access to the data to ASF committers, since they are also the > >> only > >>>> ones that can see the website logs on the server machine. > >>>> > >>>> WDYT? Would it be useful to our website gurus? > >>>> > >>>> [1] http://www.google.com/analytics/ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Tim > >>>> > > >
-- Egor Pasko
