Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] proposal: active eclipse installation cou

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Nice idea, but isn't the extension point a perfect target for hostile 
attacks?

I'm pretty sure that I will disable it as vigorously as possible on my 
installations.

    Regards

        Ed Willink

On 05/09/2013 01:14, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> As you may or may not know, p2 can be configured to report feature or
> plugin "download stats" to a remote server [1]. As a side note, this
> reporting is done silently, i.e., without telling the user, and both
> installations from remote servers and local filesystem are reported.
>
> I would like to propose extending this functionality and in addition to
> initial plugin/feature installation count, provide a way to count active
> plugin installations on ongoing basis.
>
> Here is what I have in mind
>
> * All installation counting functionality will be moved to a separate
> plugin, possibly outside of p2.
> * There will be workspace preference to enable the counting, it will be
> on by default.
> * When the plugin first starts, it will inform the user about the
> counting via a popup dialog or some other UI means and the user will
> have a choice to either acknowledge the counting or navigate to
> corresponding preferences page and disable counting there.
> * The plugin will introduce new extension point that will allow bundles
> express their desired to report active installation count. I don't have
> exact details of the extension point yet, but I thin it should be
> similar to existing p2.statsURI/download.stats p2 configuration 
> properties.
> * Active installation count will be reported weekly and will only
> include information about bundles that have the extension point and were
> active since last report (hence "active installation count").
> * On server-side, active installation count will use existing
> http://download.eclipse.org/stats/ infrastructure, but we'll probably
> recommend using different URLs for downloads and active installation 
> stats.
>
> I also volunteer to implement this, provided there are no objections to
> the proposed approach from Eclipse Foundation and somebody from platform
> committers agrees to help me review and merge the changes.
>
> For the reference, I've opened bugzilla enhancement [2] request 
> yesterday.
>
> What do you think?
>
> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Project_Download_Stats
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=416456
>
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> Regards,
> Igor
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