| [recommenders-dev] [GSoC] Approved data collection weekly report |
Hi,
this is the weekly report or the GSoC project eclipse approved data collection [1]
Project short description: In order to understand how and for which reasons developers are using Eclipse, many Plug-ins want to collect some usage data. The main problem with any data collection technology is privacy, therefore plugins should ask for approval before collecting usage data. The goal of this project is to collect such user approval before sending the data to any external server. Any operation that uploads data must be “opt-in”.
New implemented features:
During the last week i have extended the example plugin to log the java version and a random generated user id assigned to an Eclipse installation. For that purpose, i have added a new preference page, where the user can generate a new user id (screenshot attached).
You can find the full description in [2]
Aside from that, i have fixed the decision support Bug of the popup dialog [3].
Tasks for the next week:
This week i will extend the example plugin to send a heartbeat over HTTP (?) instead of just logging the java version and the user id information. Then i will let the popup dialog group by interested parties by default [4].
If you have any question or any description above is not clear enough, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Looking forward to receiving your comments and feedback,
Yasser.
[1]http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/y_aziza/5629499534213120
[2]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=437992
[3]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=437663
[4]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=438531
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