[josm-dev] Plugin Popularity

[Ľubomír Varga]

Vhat about to make it "legal"? As in eclipse or netbeans, show to user one 
page, where will be writen, that josm coul monitor his ussage off josm sw and 
report it to its autors to improve future versions. Only uploaded data will 
be a list of plugins. This upload will be done on any change in used 
plugins...

What do you think about this? In future there could be an optional monitoring 
for monitoring ussages of all buttons in josm.

PS: also some linux distributions (minimally kubuntu) ask for permission about 
to monitor "popularity" of installed packages. Default is this option off.


On Tuesday 20 October 2009 19:14:34 Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     the number of plugins becomes ever larger, which is good.
>
> I would like to amend the JOSM "User-Agent" header to contain not only
> version and language, but also a list of installed plugins - e.g.
> instead of today's
>
> JOSM/1.5 (2069 SVN en_GB) Java/1.6.0_0
>
> I would transmit
>
> JOSM/1.5 (2069 SVN en_GB; wmsplugin, validator, slippymap) Java/1.6.0_0
>
> This would enable us to make an estimate about which plugins are most
> popular, and we could rank them accordingly - assuming the most popular
> ones are also the most important ones.
>
> If you find this undesirable (it is a privacy issue but we have already
> sneaked in the version and language without asking anyone), then I would
> like to find some other way to indicate to new users which plugins are
> those commonly used.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
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