Re: [mylar-dev] Mylar user study plugin

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

 Personally I would prefer servlet-based implementation. However when 
exposing this to the public I can see why others may want to have 
non-Java variant of the server app (e.g. php), or even use over-email 
communication.

 So, I think that client side should be independent from the server and 
transport implementation.

 regards,
 Eugene


Meghan Allen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working on some infrastructure that will allow users to turn on
> the mylar monitor and anonymously submit their usage data to
> mylar.eclipse.org every X (probably 14) days. These files will be
> publicly available for anyone to analyze.
>
> The org.eclipse.mylar.monitor.usage plugin currently provides similar
> functionality.  It contains some cgi scripts that you can put on a
> server, and the functionality to upload the monitor file using these
> scripts (server name, etc. are specified through extension points).
> This has been used for user studies in the past.
>
> I've created some servlets to be run on mylar.eclipse.org to upload
> the monitor files.  Although uploading your usage files will be
> optional (you would have to turn on submission on a preference page),
> this will (I hope) be part of the default Mylar install one day.
>
> My question is, is it important to preserve the functionality of the
> current org.eclipse.mylar.monitor.usage plugin?  I think it will be
> much improved if it is redone to use the servlets, but I'm not sure if
> anyone is currently using the script based plugin for a study.
>
> The servlets would be publicly available as well, so if I rewrite the
> current plugin people could just run the servlets (with Tomcat) for
> user studies.
>
> thanks,
> meghan
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