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Bug 317179

Summary:	Capturing who and why users are adopting your component
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Cedric Brun <cedric.brun>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	etienne.juliot, mike.milinkovich, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Cedric Brun

2010-06-17 10:09:05 EDT

As project lead I often wonder : who is using my framework/component ? How many are happy/unhappy ? (ok, the bugzilla already is a metric for the unhappy users.) What kind of things are adopters doing with our components ?

This kind of information is quite valuable when deciding the next iteration global direction and right now it's mostly based on guessing.

I'd like to have some kind of "I'm using this !" button on the web page with a simple field so that the user can describe how he is using it. 

Any opinion or idea ?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2010-06-17 10:42:05 EDT

You could do this now by starting a "feedback" thread on your project forum, and add a link on your web page to the specific thread.

Comment 2 Wayne Beaton

2010-06-17 10:48:37 EDT

I have a dream that we'll be able to use the usage data to find couplings between bundles. So far an efficient query has eluded me, but I have gotten some help from a university researcher. 

The idea is to run a query that returns results that say how many different users have each different pairing of bundles. The original intent to was to determine the most common combinations of plug-ins to help direct testing efforts.

Does something along those lines help?

Comment 3 Cedric Brun

2010-06-17 11:05:37 EDT

@Denis: that's a pretty basic though nice idea !  I'll experiment this solution right away with the amalgam project.

@Wayne : that would be highly valuable, but is the UDC really collecting some kind of user identification ?

Comment 4 Wayne Beaton

2010-06-17 11:08:37 EDT

The UDC tracks a user id so we know that data comes from a particular user. We do not, however, track any identification so we do not know who the user actually is.

Comment 5 Etienne Juliot

2010-06-25 09:37:06 EDT

For your button "I use this project", perhaps we can simply use the new marketplace external link.
You can find it on the marketplace page for your project, on a link at the left (after logging).
And so, you just have to add an html like this one to your project page :
<script type="text/javascript">
          url_site = 'http://marketplace.eclipse.org/node/1069'
        </script>
        <script src="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/sites/all/modules/drigg_external/js/button.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Perhaps EMO or marketplace responsibles can promote projects' leaders to add this link and propose a place in the recommanded template for project (this kind of template: http://eclipse.org/acceleo/). If every project add this link without recommandation, it will be the jungle for web visitors (on time on the left, another on the right, another at the buttom ...).

Comment 6 Denis Roy

2011-05-27 17:10:53 EDT

Cédric said:
> As project lead I often wonder : who is using my framework/component ? How many
> are happy/unhappy ? (ok, the bugzilla already is a metric for the unhappy
> users.) What kind of things are adopters doing with our components ?

Denis said:
> You could do this now by starting a "feedback" thread on your project forum,
> and add a link on your web page to the specific thread.

Cédric said:
> @Denis: that's a pretty basic though nice idea !  I'll experiment this solution
> right away with the amalgam project.


Cédric have you ever tried my proposed solution?

Comment 7 Cedric Brun

2011-06-01 08:09:07 EDT

I added a link to a specific forum topic from the Modeling Package welcome page. That should do the trick, we'll see if it works.

Thanks for your comments !