We already collect a bunch of data in the popularity contest plugin. The model it uses is to accumulate it in memory, and then send a HTTP request to the server during application shutdown, after the window has gone invisible and while the plugin is being disabled.
Adam K On 2 April 2010 03:28, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sewi and all, > > I probably won't be on IRC in the next 2 days but I thought a bit > about the data collection. > I think the first step should be to start collecting data in Padre and saving > it in files in .padre/ without uploading anything to the server. > > We can slowly build up this collection both seeing what data might be > interesting, > how to format it (CSV file?) and we can even start to build something that > processes it. > > Once every X days or if the size of the file reaches Y bytes we should > zip the data > and start a new file. > > Once we have this working we can start building the upload and server > mechanizm > but we can do a lot of things before even thinking about the server. > > As of what kind of data to collect, we can start by collecting the > actions and some related data. > I think I'd like to know how often people (re)start Padre, how long do > they keep it open, > how many files they have open, what is the memory usage of Padre just > to say a few. > > regards > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
