[Qt-creator] Requesting repos for Connected Creator plugin and telemetry library

Frederik Gladhorn frederik.gladhorn at qt.io
Fri Aug 31 13:02:46 CEST 2018


On torsdag 30. august 2018 17.40.14 CEST Aleksey Kontsevich wrote:
> You need 2 repos - clones of following:
> https://github.com/akontsevich/ConnectedCreatorPlugin - the QtC plugin
> https://github.com/akontsevich/QTelemetry - the library - QTelemetry name

I'm not sure I want to clone the repos directly, how will reviews happen?
Should there be a merge request? Is anyone interested in reviewing the whole 
stuff and how?

Then most files I peaked into were lacking the license header and in the root 
directory I only found a LGPL license (I may be wrong, I didn't spend very 
long looking), so that's also not compatible with Qt license policy.

So the question stands, how should the import/review happen?

Cheers,
Frederik

> 
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> Best regards,
> Aleksey
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> 
> 30.08.2018, 18:20, "Frederik Gladhorn" <frederik.gladhorn at qt.io>:
> > On torsdag 30. august 2018 12.55.17 CEST Lars Knoll wrote:
> >>  Agreed. Frederik, could you help with creating the required repos?
> > 
> > I can create the repos. How do you imagine importing the existing code,
> > assuming that's the idea?
> > Should this be a clone of the existing stuff or fresh repos where we start
> > with a review of the existing code bases?
> > 
> >>  Connected Creator plugin: qt-cresator/plugin-connectedcreator
> > 
> > I'd suggest: qt-creator/plugin-telemetry
> > 
> >>  Telemetry library: playground/telemetry
> > 
> > If this is supposed to become an official Qt library at some point, it
> > should probably be something like qttelemetry, but starting in playground
> > would means it needs moving and renaming eventually in any case. The
> > closer we can get to the final location, the better.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Frederik
> > 
> >>  Thanks,
> >>  Lars
> >> 
> >>  On 30 Aug 2018, at 12:50, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> >> 
> >>  Hi,
> >> 
> >>  There were no objection to this, request. However, perhaps due to the
> >>  summertime the repos were not created.
> >>  Let’s make those now and move this code under the Qt project.
> >> 
> >>  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: Monday, 16 July 2018 at
> >> 10.17
> >>  To: "qt-creator at qt-project.org" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
> >>  Subject: [Qt-creator] Requesting repos for Connected Creator plugin and
> >>  telemetry library
> >>  Hi all,
> >> 
> >>  In March this year, I requested a repo for an open source telemetry
> >> plugin
> >>  for Qt Creator. Now, the plugin has been implemented and I’d like to
> >>  request two repos: · A repo for a Connected Creator plugin
> >>  · A playground repo for a telemetry library
> >> 
> >>  Description: The Qt Company wants to collect usage data from Qt
> >> development tools. For that purpose, we have developed a general-purpose
> >> telemetry library and a Qt Creator -specific plugin, using the telemetry
> >> library. The reason to collect the data from our users is to learn, how
> >> developers use Qt Creator and other tools, how usage patterns change,
> >> how quickly new features and versions are started to be used, which
> >> tools are mostly used? This information is one data source, helping us
> >> to make decisions, how to further develop our products. In the short
> >> run, we believe we will get valuable information, how to improve the
> >> user experience of our products. The connected creator plugin implements
> >> the frontend for tracking the data from different data sources in Qt
> >> Creator. The frontend consists of a simple UI to enable/disable the
> >> plugin, to set logs expiration period, and to view the data to be
> >> transmitted or previously transmitted data (logs). Currently, the plugin
> >> tracks Qt Quick Designer usage only: launch count and usage time.
> >> General platform data is collected by the telemetry library. This data
> >> currently includes compiler details, locale, OpenGL type and version, Qt
> >> version, screen details, Qt Creator version, license type (evaluation,
> >> commercial, no license), and unique id (generated with QUuid).
> >> 
> >>  All collected data is anonymous. No personal data such as project names,
> >>  project locations and paths, IP or MAC addresses, email addresses or Qt
> >>  Account details are collected.
> >>  The data is stored in the backend server, owned by The Qt Company. The
> >>  backend is complexly separated from the telemetry frontend and the code
> >>  will be provided in The Qt Company
> >>  private repo: https://github.com/TheQtCompany/qt-telemetry-backend.
> >>  The collected data is cached into a settings file before the
> >> transmission.
> >>  This allows the user to check, what data is going to be transmitted and
> >>  even disable the plugin before any data is actually transmitted. In
> >>  addition, data caching allows calculating key values in the frontend
> >>  instead of sending each user event to the server separately. This
> >> reduces
> >>  the network traffic significantly. By default, the cached data is
> >>  transmitted to the server once per week. It is possible to log the
> >>  transmitted data into the files to verify all the data transmitted to
> >> the
> >>  server.
> >>  The plugin is planned to be completely opt-in. The online installer will
> >> ask the user, if he/she wants to install the plugin. There is no default
> >> selection for the installation, but user must explicitly choose either
> >> to install or not install the plugin. If the user decides to install the
> >> plugin, it can be disabled in Qt Creator settings. The user is able to
> >> see the cached data and before the first transmission, the user can
> >> disable the plugin, even though it has been installed.
> >>  More implementation details can be found in Jira
> >>  ticket: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20250
> >>  Existing repos:
> >>  Connected Creator
> >>  plugin: https://github.com/akontsevich/ConnectedCreatorPlugin Telemetry
> >>  library: https://github.com/akontsevich/QTelemetry
> >> 
> >>  Responsible: Tino Pyssysalo
> >> 
> >>  Requested repos:
> >>  Connected Creator plugin: qt-cresator/plugin-connectedcreator
> >>  Telemetry library: playground/telemetry
> >> 
> >>  ---
> >>  Tino Pyssysalo
> >>  Senior Manager
> >>  Product Management
> >> 
> >>  The Qt Company
> >>  tino.pyssysalo at qt.io
> >>  http://qt.io
> >> 
> >>  The future is Written with Qt
> >>  ---
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