GSoC 2019 [Collect build statistics]

[Arjun Salyan]

I have a couple of doubts here:

1. Once I install mpstats does it still send weekly reports? I could not
find the required code to do this in the port files. Code for manually
submitting is available in mpstats.tcl but I am unable to locate the code
for automating the submissions. What am I missing here?

2. I am completely new to Buildbot. I went though their website buildbot.net,
I understand its functioning, but am not getting the practical approach.
Can you give me a brief idea of how it is implemented with Macports? Like
what are the events that are taking place and when?

Thank You.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:26 PM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2019-3-9 22:55 , Saagar Jha wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, while I am not opposed to MacPorts adding clearly communicated,
> > opt-in, self-hosted analytics; I would be /very/ strongly against doing
> > this if any of these conditions was not met. Doubly so if the initial
> > discussion to do this is made without users being able to provide input,
> > triply if the feature stays largely unchanged even when users complain,
> > and quadruply if this discussion is forcefully closed, unresolved,
> > because “the feature has already shipped”.
>
> Yes, gathering of this data needs to remain strictly opt-in, and using
> something like Google Analytics would be a whole new rabbit hole of
> issues that we don't want.
>
> It's already easy enough for users to participate by installing mpstats;
> the missing piece is advertising its existence and suggesting that users
> install it. The only reason we're not doing that is that the stats
> system still needs work.
>
> - Josh
>
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