RE: [mylar-dev] Mylar user study plugin

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Meghan, I think that for your new contributions you can forget about the old
scripts and just go with what works best for you.  The Servlets sound good
to me since they will make calling our headless APIs trivial.  If we want to
resurrect the previous CGI/Perl based approach we can just check out a
pre-1.0 tag and go from there.

Note that to support this I moved a lot of the code from
mylar.monitor.reports to mylar.monitor.usage (move happened last weekend).

Mik 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:03 PM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] Mylar user study plugin
> 
> 
>   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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