2018-05-31 19:51 GMT+02:00 Jiří Kovalský <[email protected]>:
> > And how we calculate the numbers? We collect Apache log files from all > download servers, parse them to extract entries when somebody downloaded > catalog.xml.gz file i.e. Update Center which is by default scheduled to > happen on a weekly basis and then store the records to database. Every GET > request sends unique ID identifying single NetBeans installation which we > then use to distinguish users from each other and if we identify the same > ID in the DB twice in a month we increment the counter of unique active > users. :) > One comment that I got on this approach is that this approach is not counting the number of active users, but number of active installations. The objection was that usually one user has two or more computers and we have no way to attribute these usages to a single user. -jt PS: I have NetBeans installed on three computers that I use regularly.
