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?
+1 Also note that being able to generate this instance id would also be needed to install an extension in your instance from extensions.xwiki.org (like you can do on Android style). > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
