Hi,

sounds cool to me, I'd love to have such a graph on XWiki.org to showcase
the community around XWiki :-)

Maybe we could add an option in the preference to deactivate this feature
for users who'd prefer nor providing this type of information?

Guillaume

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> I think it would be great to have some indication of how many active
> instances of XWiki are out there in the wild. The idea is not so much to
> know the figure but to see how this figures evolves and thus to see if we're
> doing things right. It will also give us information about how quickly or
> slowly our user base upgrades from version to version.
>
> Here's my proposal:
>
> * When installing XWiki on a clean DB (ie first time install) generate a
> unique id and store it in the DB (similar to the version we're storing in
> the DB but using some UUID). Thus when an install is upgraded the same id is
> preserved.
> * When the Extension Manager is used and thus connects to
> extensions.xwiki.org (default extension repository), this unique ID is
> sent too.
> * In addition the version of XE is sent too
> * On extensions.xwiki.org side, we only log the unique ID/XE version
> **without** logging the IP or any other information thus ensuring that the
> ID remains completely anonymous
> * We display a counter on xwiki.org about the # of active instances of XE
> with a graph about XE versions used
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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