[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-14016) p2 download stats should only track a subset of features, with better context than feature name

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-14016:
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That our installer is universal does not mean the installed bits has no platform specific bits.
The installed bits are OS specific.

If I grok it correctly the thing we could do is to set a "marker" to indicate this is coming from a JBDS installed install and not just jboss tools or jbds running inside eclipse and nothing else.

Can we see the OS in the useragent in the stats ? From JBIDE-12432 it seems no, it says: "'user-agent' = 'Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1'"

That is not very useful.

Could we get the info from the installer and set it up like:

 <property name='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.stats.parameters' value='package=devstudio&version=7.0.0.Alpha2&os=whateveros'/> ?

This would add a setting into the installed product that would send this over, correct ?

Combine that with the settings in each p2 repo it becomes possible to know which OS mosts updates come from.

version might need to be removed from the above property since this would just be set *once* in an install, not possible to update is it ? maybe call it originalversion or something to not make it ambigious. 


                
> p2 download stats should only track a subset of features, with better context than feature name
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>                 Key: JBIDE-14016
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-14016
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: updatesite
>    Affects Versions: 4.1.0.Alpha2
>            Reporter: Nick Boldt
>            Assignee: Max Rydahl Andersen
>             Fix For: 4.1.0.Beta1
>
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> [~maxandersen] said:
> {quote}
> We shouldn't track every feature - should review the list and also try add some more context than just the feature name if possible.
> {quote}
> Questions to discuss in order to flesh out this request:
> a) if not all, then which features? Where do we get the list? Do we need to parse the JBT aggregate site's category.xml and pull out all features from a particular category, such as the Core (Abridged) category?
> b) what context do you want instead?

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