RE: [mylar-dev] Re: wtp user study

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Igor: could you submit that exception as a bug to Mylar under the "Monitor"
component?  The problem may be with the Antoine extension, but we can track
that down on the report.

Eugene: yes, I *really* want the monitor back because it is a huge help in
making decisions about what to remove and what to promote in the UI.  But I
agree with you about the 'personal monitoring' being important, and think
that we shouldn't release the monitor until we have these personal
monitoring facilities in place.  I don't like the idea of users not getting
to see an informative view what they're uploading and sharing with others.
The hope is to do this for 0.6, and the good thing is that we already have
wizards and editors for viewing this stuff (from the Mylar user study).

139242: [discussion] personal activity monitoring
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=139242

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Igor Fedorenko
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:38 AM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] Re: wtp user study
> 
> It works with RC1a build. You have to send reports manually though,
> their automatic task fails with somethingnotfound exception.
> 
> Eugene Kuleshov wrote:
> > Mik,
> >
> >  That page does not say if this monitor would work on latest/nightly 3.2
> > builds... Can you please clarify?
> >
> >  BTW, what is the status of reenabling Mylar's own monitor? I guess it
> > is still interesting to see some stats for own activity.
> >
> >  regards,
> >  Eugene
> >
> >
> > Mik Kersten wrote:
> >> If you are using Mylar with WTP, please consider installing Leah
> >> Findlater's WTP usage monitoring plug-in:
> >>
> >>     http://ws.cs.ubc.ca/~lkf/antoine
> >>
> >> The goal of Leah's Antoine project is to learn how people are using
> >> the WTP UI (e.g. which menus, views, and key bindings get used).  Leah
> >> has built the WTP monitoring support on top of the Mylar Monitor, and
> >> contributed to the Mylar Monitor in the process.
> >>
> >> --------- details ----------
> >>
> >> The Mylar monitor gathers interaction history while ensuring anonymity
> >> and privacy of the data you work on (uses one-way SHA hashing for
> >> obfuscation).  We used the Mylar Monitor in the initial study of Mylar
> >> (v0.3). The Monitor's reporting facilities enable the identification
> >> of UI usage trends. For instance, we were interested in which views
> >> and refactorings were used most, and from our study found the
> >> following amongst 41 JDT users:
> >> * Selections: PackageExplorer 74%, Search 11%, Outline 10%, Call
> >> Hierarchy 3%
> >> * Refactoring usage: Rename 100%, Move 58%, Extract 56%, Pull Up 32%
> >>
> >> (We expect the results from the analysis of the JDT will be published
> in
> >> early summer and will send a link when they are available.)
> >>
> >> We want to continue to improve the Mylar monitor so that it can be
> >> used to help Eclipse plug-in developers make UI decisions that match
> >> real usage patterns.  You can help us with that now by participating
> >> in Leah's WTP study.  We also hope to set up a statistics gathering
> >> mechanism on eclipse.org that will make it possible for the Eclipse
> >> community to view usage trends.  At that point we will make the
> >> Monitor available as an optional Mylar download for those interested
> >> in having their usage data influence UI decisions.
> >>
> >> Mik
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mik Kersten, http://kerstens.org/mik
> >> Mylar Project Lead, http://eclipse.org/mylar
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