[josm-dev] Plugin Popularity

[SLXViper]

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.
>   

Can't you just analyse the requests made by josm to
josm.openstreetmap.de when someone wants to update existing or install
new plugins? I think this could be the best solution as it causes
traffic very rarely and only when you want to modify or check your
installed plugins. Additionally, noone else except the admins of
josm.openstreetmap.de will get this information, so most people minding
their privacy should be able to accept this. This would work with every
version of josm, even old ones, no modifications are needed here. The
only thing you have to do is to add some statistics part to the webserver.


best regards