Builder logs

[bouks]

@flack Do you log the choices made by users in the builder ?

Do you think we could log them so we'll know what is the more useful or useless in the distribution?

[flack]

So far, the choices are only written into the generated file. We can't log them in gh-pages directly, we would need to integrate Google Analytics or some custom logger (for which someone will have to maintain a backed) to log.

I agree that it would be interesting to know which parts are the most popular, but (living in Germany as I do), I wonder if this is compatible with privacy regulations. To play it safe, we might want to add some opt-in (or opt-out) button like "Allow anonymous collection of build data"

[bouks]

There is no privacy problem as of you only log taken options that are anonymous datas (no name, no identification).
Also IP can be loggued.
For example, when you go on a website you don't opt-in anything but you're IP and requests are loggued in web server.

[bouks]

We could log in a distant server by ajax request.

[flack]

ok, if someone complains, I'll point them to you then :-)

But sure, we can implement this. Do you have any idea how exactly? Google Analytics would be an option if we also want general usage statistics, if it is only build statistics, we could also write something ourselves. but like I said, someone would have to host a backend that collects the data

[bouks]

I think it's simpler to code ourselves, it's a really tiny thing.
Hosting is not a problem, i can do it if no one can.

If there is complaints, i'll go living in russia. :D