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

Aleksey Kontsevich tantrido at ya.ru
Fri Aug 31 13:55:16 CEST 2018


License header could be easily added and license is LGPL-3.0 which should not be a problem.

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31.08.2018, 14:14, "Frederik Gladhorn" <frederik.gladhorn at qt.io>:
> 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
>
>>  --
>>  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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