[neon] release update info

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:20:38PM +0200, Clemens Toennies wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2016 7:01 PM, "Jonathan Riddell" <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've always wanted to get some idea of how many users install Neon and
> > there's a desire to get this sort of information in KDE generally.
> >
> > So today when I was adding the settings to use our release data for
> > when to update to new releases (in git and at
> > http://releases.neon.kde.org.uk/) I made it add the machine id to the
> > url it was asking for.  It means we can have a good idea of how many
> > people use our software.
> >
> > However I expect people will worry about it being intrusive and not
> > too compatible with KDE's new vision so I'm wondering what people's
> > opinions are on this and what are the likely arguments going to be?
> 
> Is the data anonymized?
> What data exactly is submitted and evaluated?

It's an http request which puts this in our logs

releases.neon.kde.org:80 87.246.78.46 - - [11/Apr/2016:16:37:43 +0000] "GET /meta-release?id=1234bb87d63d44a2b78d6def3b2381d7 HTTP/1.1" 200 899 "-" "Python-urllib/3.4"

where id= comes from 1234bb87d63d44a2b78d6def3b2381d7

So it allows us to match an IP to an install but not much else which
is pretty anonymous.  The only data I'd be interested in using and
releasing is the total number of installs over time.

Jonathan