Our first Apache release has been announced more than 3 weeks, but we can't exactly know how many users access our website and how many downloads. We should change the status. So, I suggest use Google Analytics on our website ASAP. If no negative voice, I will start this work next week.
2011/11/16 Rob Weir <[email protected]> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Devin Han <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I get this document[1] from ASF website. It sounds like ASF encourage us > to > > use Google analytics <http://www.google.com/analytics/en-GB/index.html> > to > > gain a reasonable download estimate. Actually lots of succesful projects > > use it. > > > > We used Google Analytics at the ODF Toolkit Union, and it worked well > there. I think it would be good if we continued using it. > > The terms of service [i] for Google Analytics requires that we (as a > user of their service) have a privacy policy and that the privacy > policy "must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects > anonymous traffic data." So the examples you give, from other Apache > projects, are good models. > > [i]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/tos.html > > > > About the privacy policy, we can supply a web page to declare it. > > e.g.[2,3,4]. > > > > [1] > > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#distribution-mirroring > > [2] http://uima.apache.org/privacy-policy.html > > [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-privacy-policy.html > > [4] http://zookeeper.apache.org/privacy.html > > > > 2011/10/25 Nick Burch <[email protected]> > > > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Devin Han wrote: > >> > >>> My concern is whether ASF allow us continue use Google Analytics to > hand > >>> the > >>> downloads and visitors. > >>> > >> > >> I believe some other projects do use google analytics, but I seem to > >> recall there were some hoops around privacy policies needed first. It's > >> probably worth checking the infra list archive for details > >> > >> Nick > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -Devin > > > -- -Devin
