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[recommenders-dev] [GSoC] Approved data collection weekly report

Hi all,


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:

And yet another change in the privacy preference page. After getting some feedback i have combined the permission views together(global/per plugin) and added a radio button which enable switching between displaying permission by datum or by interested party. (see attached screenshots)


The extension point architecture has been adapted and some new attributes like a privacy policy URL (big thanks goes to Partick for pointing this out) has been added.


Tasks for the next week:

First i will write unit tests for the new extension points changes. Then i will go through all tooltips in the privacy preference page trying to display useful information. After finishing the 0.1.0 release, i will start with the 0.2.0 and the popup dialogue.


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


Attachment: Permission by datum.png
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Attachment: Permission by interested party.png
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