I think it should/could be shared as it may be interesting to some. Can also make things transparent that no PII is fllowing.
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:48:21 AM UTC+10, R Tyler Croy wrote: > > (replies inline) > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, James Dumay wrote: > > > > > For example, we would like to know what the success rate of the pipeline > > creation process is. We would track events for each stage in the > creation > > flow and we can then use a funnel analysis [2] to see what step users > drop > > off (e.g. where we have failed). Another usage would be to record what > > browser versions are in use and that data could be used to have a more > > tailored Supported Browser policy for the project. > > > > In addition to improving the user experience, I am in a position at > > CloudBees where I have to decide how our employees time is being spent > on > > the Blue Ocean project and having this data would help us spend this > time > > more wisely. > > > > The data collected here is intended for development only (e.g. not > > marketing or other nefarious purposes) and is available under the exact > > same terms as the Jenkins Usage Statistics (e.g. email me and I can give > > you access). > > > > As for personally identifiable information, we strictly do not want to > > include this data in any user analytics. To ensure that we can identify > a > > users click stream, we have taken a sha256 hash of the instances public > key > > and the user ID and reported this back to the store as a key > representing > > the user. It would be great to have any security conscious developers > > review this code [4]. > > > > If this turns out to be something useful we can look at opening it up to > > more plugins. For this initial spike we are using a service called Keen > [5] > > but I would not be against pumping this data our to a service on Jenkins > > project infra (anyone want to write an analytics system?). > > > > Here's me proactively unvolunteering to write an analytics system right to > host > in our project infra :P > > > More seriously though, I don't see any problem as long as you're taking > care to > make sure PII isn't being sent to Keen. I've seen a few plugins over the > years > do this, and as long as it's respecting the user's Anonymous usage > collection > setting, and not being stupid, then it's totally reasonable IMHO. > > > > While I don't think there is any obligation to share what you learn from > these > analytics, I'm sure other plugin developers would find your eventual > conclusions useful. > > > > God speed mooncat. > > - R. Tyler Croy > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Code: <https://github.com/rtyler> > Chatter: <https://twitter.com/agentdero> > xmpp: [email protected] <javascript:> > > % gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 1426C7DC3F51E16F > ------------------------------------------------------ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/69d2a910-dd28-4f20-9675-0d27447422c7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
