Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Finding how many active instances of XWiki there are out there

Hi, sounds cool to me, I'd love to have such a graph on XWiki.org to showcase the community around XWiki :-) Maybe we could add an option in the preference to deactivate this feature for users who'd prefer nor providing this type of information?

Guillaume On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I think it would be great to have some indication of how many active > instances of XWiki are out there in the wild. The idea is not so much to > know the figure but to see how this figures evolves and thus to see if we're > doing things right. It will also give us information about how quickly or > slowly our user base upgrades from version to version. > > Here's my proposal: > > * When installing XWiki on a clean DB (ie first time install) generate a > unique id and store it in the DB (similar to the version we're storing in > the DB but using some UUID). Thus when an install is upgraded the same id is > preserved. > * When the Extension Manager is used and thus connects to > extensions.xwiki.org (default extension repository), this unique ID is > sent too. > * In addition the version of XE is sent too > * On extensions.xwiki.org side, we only log the unique ID/XE version > **without** logging the IP or any other information thus ensuring that the > ID remains completely anonymous > * We display a counter on xwiki.org about the # of active instances of XE > with a graph about XE versions used > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent