I am sorry but I disagree with that statement on several points. The ASF officially uses Google Analytics (see https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/privacy.html#website-usage-privacy-policy) and I see zero reason to discourage a project from using these services.
>From my perspective, based on a number of projects with this same issue, the key things are: the PMC should discuss it and vote. It's a project decision. there should be a clear policy about what is tracked and why. echarts if I remember spent some time on this if you need an example. the ability to access the tracking account should be shared with the PMC Otherwise, in aggregate, this can be very valuable information and there is little reason I find not to collect it. Regards, KAM On 10/26/2019 7:28 AM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > There been some discussion on other ASF lists on privacy and the use of > services like google analytics. While nothing official has been decided the > discussion has tended to suggest to not use these sort of services. > Thanks, > Justin > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019, 10:05 Julian Feinauer, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> just go tot he flink dev list and ask there __ >> >> Julian >> >> Am 26.10.19, 09:00 schrieb "Xiangdong Huang" <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi, >> >> On ACEU19, I noticed that the Flink community showed a figure to >> illustrate >> the daily traffic of the official website. >> >> The community find some interesting things like the traffic is very >> low on >> the first week of October (China's National day) and Chinese New >> Year... >> >> The above discovery is not important, but interested me is that they >> can >> count the traffic of the website... >> >> So, does Apache have some method to do that? Or we may need to add some >> JavaScripts like Google Analytics, Baidu analytics. >> >> Best, >> ----------------------------------- >> Xiangdong Huang >> School of Software, Tsinghua University >> >> 黄向东 >> 清华大学 软件学院 >> >> >> -- Kevin A. McGrail [email protected] Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
