Hello, On 03/08/2015 10:23, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > In a separate thread, Neal raises the point below. Moving it to a > separate thread here. > > Nyal asks: "... On a semi-related theme, we really need a core "QGIS > update available" plugin. I suspect there's a ton of users still on > 2.8.0/.1/<2.8 just due to not knowing there's a new version out. This > could also be really handy for tracking stats of users..." > > @Nyall: we already have an menu item: Help/Check QGIS version > But I just checked, and in 2.8.3 it says that I should update to 2.10, > so I think that is more or less broken since we do LTR versions...
Repairing this feature, and maybe having an automated background check at startup would be good for this feature. > And we did have this ping back discussion earlier, resulting in "we > cannot do it because of the privacy issues". > > Though I'm pretty privacy-minded, I am actually in favour of a ping back! > > Given the following plan, does that guarantee enough privacy for people > who were against it earlier: > > - during first creation of .qgis2 user folder (upon first installation) > we generate some uuid (based on currentime+somerandom) > - upon later startups QGIS fires a HTTP GET request to a webserver which > contains this UUID + the language + current version used > - this request is handled by a separate apache or nginx server which > does nothing more then logging this, and returning the (for that branch) > latest version. Which is checked for by QGIS > - by simple analysing the logs (grepping) we can have some info about > our user-base (number of installs given a period of time) and even a > live 'currently QGISsing'-guess :-) > > Can privacy concerning people live with this plan? Not me. Any personal information sent by the user should only be done on a volontary basis. I would agree with this if : * This is optional * This is not activated by default * The installer could ask the user if he wants to send statistics to the QGIS project, with a list of data items sent. > As an argument to allowing these pingbacks, as we/I invest pretty much > time in localisation around QGIS, it would make me feel better if I know > that all this work is actually be used by some people :-) User statistics are indeed very important. Privacy is just way more important, especially in these troubled times. I do think we, as opensource community members, and digital era citizens, have to show the way. Do not ever do things users would consider evil without getting their agreement. Regards, Vincent _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
