Re: [arch-dev-public] [draft] pkgstats round two: take your vote and help improving Arch

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:25:46 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:55:45 +0800 Ray Rashif wrote:

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On 23 September 2010 19:34, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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Shouldn't we add something like "all information is anonymous, we collect no information that can identify you" or something?

Good point. In that case, a revision of the above:

Two years ago, we introduced <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/news/pkgstats-contribution-was-never-that-easy/">pkgstats</a>. This time, after a major revamp, we are re-introducing it to you!

Contributing is as easy as installing the package - a weekly cron job will take care of the rest. You will be sending us a list of packages installed on your system, along with the architecture and mirror you use. This information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you, but it will help us prioritize our efforts and make Arch even better. So, go ahead and spread the word!

For more details see pkgstats -h or just read the simple source code. You can view the collected data at the <a href="https://www.archlinux.de/?page=Statistics">Statistics page</a>.

Looks better.

Btw, about the "cannot be used to identify you" thing; what was ultimately decided on identification of a system? I just checked the pkgstats 2.1 code, and I don't see anything about ip/disk UUID/.. whatever was decided.

Dieter

I wont add any tracking information or collect more data than really needed. To give an overview: Data that are sent by pkgstats: * list of installed packages without version numbers * the architecture * the mirror used (without any username/password scheme) * the version of pkgstats in use Data that are saved on the server: * sha1 hash of the IP * number of packages submitted * package occurrence is counted but not connected to the IP hash * time of submission * Country of the sender IP (determined by geoIP) Submissions are limited to 10 by IP and day. (note: we only save the hash of an ip though) I hope this makes everything clear. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre