> On 30. Aug 2018, at 12:50, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turu...@qt.io> wrote: > > Hi, > > There were no objection to this, request. However, perhaps due to the > summertime the repos were not created.
Note that this obviously wasn’t posted on the qt-development mailing list, but on the qt-creator mailing list. > > Let’s make those now and move this code under the Qt project. > > Yours, > > Tuukka > > From: Qt-creator <qt-creator-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt...@qt-project.org> on > behalf of Tino Pyssysalo <tino.pyssys...@qt.io> > Date: Monday, 16 July 2018 at 10.17 > To: "qt-creator@qt-project.org" <qt-creator@qt-project.org> > Subject: [Qt-creator] Requesting repos for Connected Creator plugin and > telemetry library > > Hi all, > > In March this year, I requested a repo for an open source telemetry plugin > for Qt Creator. Now, the plugin has been implemented and I’d like to request > two repos: > · A repo for a Connected Creator plugin > · A playground repo for a telemetry library > > Description: The Qt Company wants to collect usage data from Qt development > tools. For that purpose, we have developed a general-purpose telemetry > library and a Qt Creator -specific plugin, using the telemetry library. The > reason to collect the data from our users is to learn, how developers use Qt > Creator and other tools, how usage patterns change, how quickly new features > and versions are started to be used, which tools are mostly used? This > information is one data source, helping us to make decisions, how to further > develop our products. In the short run, we believe we will get valuable > information, how to improve the user experience of our products. > > The connected creator plugin implements the frontend for tracking the data > from different data sources in Qt Creator. The frontend consists of a simple > UI to enable/disable the plugin, to set logs expiration period, and to view > the data to be transmitted or previously transmitted data (logs). Currently, > the plugin tracks Qt Quick Designer usage only: launch count and usage time. > General platform data is collected by the telemetry library. This data > currently includes compiler details, locale, OpenGL type and version, Qt > version, screen details, Qt Creator version, license type (evaluation, > commercial, no license), and unique id (generated with QUuid). > > All collected data is anonymous. No personal data such as project names, > project locations and paths, IP or MAC addresses, email addresses or Qt > Account details are collected. > > The data is stored in the backend server, owned by The Qt Company. The > backend is complexly separated from the telemetry frontend and the code will > be provided in The Qt Company private repo: > https://github.com/TheQtCompany/qt-telemetry-backend. > > The collected data is cached into a settings file before the transmission. > This allows the user to check, what data is going to be transmitted and even > disable the plugin before any data is actually transmitted. In addition, data > caching allows calculating key values in the frontend instead of sending each > user event to the server separately. This reduces the network traffic > significantly. By default, the cached data is transmitted to the server once > per week. It is possible to log the transmitted data into the files to verify > all the data transmitted to the server. > > The plugin is planned to be completely opt-in. The online installer will ask > the user, if he/she wants to install the plugin. There is no default > selection for the installation, but user must explicitly choose either to > install or not install the plugin. If the user decides to install the plugin, > it can be disabled in Qt Creator settings. The user is able to see the cached > data and before the first transmission, the user can disable the plugin, even > though it has been installed. > > More implementation details can be found in Jira ticket: > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20250 > > Existing repos: > Connected Creator plugin: > https://github.com/akontsevich/ConnectedCreatorPlugin > Telemetry library: https://github.com/akontsevich/QTelemetry > > Responsible: Tino Pyssysalo > > Requested repos: > Connected Creator plugin: qt-cresator/plugin-connectedcreator > Telemetry library: playground/telemetry > > --- > Tino Pyssysalo > Senior Manager > Product Management > > The Qt Company > tino.pyssys...@qt.io > http://qt.io > > The future is Written with Qt > --- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin eike.zil...@qt.io http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
