Need Feedback on GSOC Proposal

[Dmitry Kazakov]

Hi!

In addition to Boudewijn's points I guess it would be good to have an 
example of how one particular type of log (e.g. tool activation metric) 
goes through all the stages, from Krita to web frontend with analytics 
view. Then we could discuss the scope of the project more precisely.

I think the following to points are also reasonable:

1) Full featured crash reports seem to be out of scope of the project. 
Although we can catch the asserts issued with KIS_ASSERT, passing the 
filename and line in the log. We can also try to add kBacktrace(), but 
it might be not a good idea when the user doesn't have the symbols 
installed.

2) For the Steam part of the project, I guess we could limit the scope 
to user-visible achievements only. And pass the rest of the data to our 
main server. That would save a lot of time. What do you think?



On 27.03.2017 14:46, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>
> I haven't got a dochub account, so I cannot comment in-line. Here are some notes:
>
>   * You never mention privacy anywhere: any proposal that is about collecting
> usage data needs a very clear mention of the collection being opt-in and the
> data being anonymized.
>   * The client-side implementation is reasonably clear, but I miss an overview
> of which data is going to be collected exactly.
>   * We already have a number of technologies that are somewhat related, like
> the action recording, but none are available for for all tools, dialogs and
> actions. It would be good to setup a generic system that can collect user
> actions
>   * Performance: how are you going to avoid a performance hit when writing out
> data?
>   * On the server-side, your proposal analyzes an entire session's logfile
> in one go -- did I understand that correctly? Could the proposal be expanded
> by sending a crash log on restart as well?
>
> For the rest, nice and solid proposal with all the relevant information
> available: it's only because it's so clear that I was able to ask a bunch
> of questions :-)
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Kapustin Alexey wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>> I would like to listen to comments and suggestions about my proposal "Telemetry for getting statistics for
>> which features are used the most in Krita": https://goo.gl/uzhELn
>> I would really appreciate for feedback.
>> Cheers, Alexey.
>>
>>

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Dmitry Kazakov