On 14 April 2016 at 15:16, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > A while ago Albert gave a talk at Akademy about collecting some data > on our users. This got me thinking and with Neon I wanted to see how > many installs we had. Our package install software will check for new > versions being available and I could count the IPs of this check but > that's very unreliable. Canonical counts IPs from the NTP ping at > boot up but of course it's only useful at best as a relative metric of > numbers of installs not absolute numbers. So I added a machine-id to > the URL it checks which is the unique value set at install time by > systemd (/etc/machine-id) so now it has a good idea of being able to > count the number of installs. > > But KDE cares about privacy and it's in our Vision and I don't want to > be accused of violating that. But currently I can't see how this can > violate users privacy any more than an IP address can so I'm curious > to hear what arguments might come up against this.
++1 for any such stats to serve users better. They do understand the concept as it's used widely. If this is interesting for you: What I do in-app (Kexi - https://blogs.kde.org/2013/12/09/usage-stats) when users agree is: generating an UID to track unique uses (including full reinstalls as long as the $HOME dir stays. This helps to avoid dynamic IP problems. I did not find IPs so useful. > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community