[Development] [Qt-creator] Requesting repository for telemetry plugin in Qt Creator

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,


For the charts it's indeed not so relevant what kind of charts we can visualize. That is an implementation detail indeed. But whether visualization data in charts is relevant to the users of Qt and whether we would like to make this part of the Qt project is certainly a question we'd clarify up-front before commencing development.


With the given description in this request, it is not evident to me how this fits into the scope of the Qt project, hence my question. I'm not asking about the protocol details, encoding format and memory consumption. I'm wondering about how the requested repository fits into Qt, and that is not clear to me with the provided information. I don't feel that this is an implementation question, it's as fundamental as the name of the repository itself.


Differently put: I'm giving -1 simply because I think more information should be presented to clarify the scope. I'm not saying that this would never ever fit into Qt. We request the same for other modules (say cloudmessaging), so I think it makes sense to do that here, too.


Simon

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From: Tuukka Turunen
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:47:40 PM
To: Simon Hausmann; Tino Pyssysalo; qt-creator at qt-project.org; development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] [Qt-creator] Requesting repository for telemetry plugin in Qt Creator




Hi Simon,



Is that an item to decide at repo creation time or something to address later during implementation / code review? For example consider requesting a repo for qt/qtcharts – should we have known what data users want to visualize with it before having a repository (or only during the implementation of the feature)?



That said, I do agree that we should discuss about the topic if we are to collect user analytics data – and to also learn what kind of data is valuable to collect (noting that there are strict rules for anything that can be considered personal data). My view is that creating the requested repository and developing the code in the open is very good for transparency and also provides good opportunities for discussion during the implementation.



Yours,



                             Tuukka



From: Simon Hausmann <Simon.Hausmann at qt.io>
Date: Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 15.26
To: Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io>, Tino Pyssysalo <tino.pyssysalo at qt.io>, "qt-creator at qt-project.org" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>, "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] [Qt-creator] Requesting repository for telemetry plugin in Qt Creator



Hi,



Can you provide a bit more information about how this plugin / frontend fits into the Qt project? Where is the collected data sent to and how is it accessible to the community?



(-1 from me, as I think this needs to be clarified)



Simon

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From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 2:14:14 PM
To: Tino Pyssysalo; qt-creator at qt-project.org; development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] [Qt-creator] Requesting repository for telemetry plugin in Qt Creator





Hi,



+1 for creating the repo, but what about qt/qtanalytics as a name? This item could be useful also for other applications.



Yours,



                             Tuukka



From: Qt-creator <qt-creator-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Tino Pyssysalo <tino.pyssysalo at qt.io>
Date: Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 13.04
To: "qt-creator at qt-project.org" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
Subject: [Qt-creator] Requesting repository for telemetry plugin in Qt Creator



Description:



Telemetry plugin (frontend) to collect usage data from Qt Creator to help improving Qt, Qt features, and Qt tools.

Non-personal data items, such as duration the user spent in design mode, will be collected in a way, which is completely transparent to the user.



Responsible: Tino Pyssysalo



Repository: qt-creator/plugin-telemetry





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