The installer isn't really conducive to this. We could definitely
advertise it better though, both in the documentation and with a message
inviting users to install the port if they haven't. I'm thinking the
latter should use the interactive bits to allow users to say "never
remind me again".
But first we should probably get the stats web view running on a
macports.org domain.
- Josh
On 2016-12-16 02:54 , Russell Jones wrote:
A tickbox in the installer wouldn't hurt, I guess?
Russell
On 27/11/16 05:48, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
I also read that article yesterday.
Because our statistics are opt in, and the user is not invited to
enable them during the installation, and they are not described in the
guide or anywhere that I'm aware of, the number of users who have
found and enabled it are minuscule and probably not representative of
MacPorts users as a whole.
The lack of statistics about how many users use MacPorts and what
ports they have installed is probably hurting us.
-Ryan
On Nov 26, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Marko Käning <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
the other day I found an article on hacker news [1] which eventually
made clear
that homebrew actually sends (some) data to google analytics by
default [2]!
I am happy about MacPorts’ “analytics” by port mpstats being
absolutely opt-in
and keeping the data within MacPorts (Clemens’ server in fact) and
doesn’t try
anything funny!
Thanks, MacPorts for caring (more) about its users privacy!
Greets,
Marko
[1] https://tobiastom.name/notes/7a79eed0
[2]
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/7f13b37b903564e2a64cea982d6b84d1aa6b800b/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.sh#L73-L94
