| Hi Marcel,
That’s a tough one.
On one hand, I’m missing some background/information why download numbers can’t be used for this purpose. If you apply some sort for conversion rate, you might pretty well get a number that indicates the range of active users. Also, download numbers are pretty good indicator of your outreach.
On the other hand, I don’t want to block you guys from getting research funding. At this point, I’m afraid I can only give a +0.
-Gunnar
Dear Technology-PMC,
following the calling home policy published at [1], I’m asking for you permission to integrate a heartbeat feature into Code Recommenders for Luna.
What we’d like to do is to send an HTTP request to some server at eclipse.org containing a "machine-id“ (i.e., a SHA1 of the machine's mac address) every now and then and qualify code recommenders model downloads with that machine-id too. The UI asking for the user’s permission will likely look like a simple popup that, when Code Recommenders is activated, asks the user for permission to send the heartbeat/machine-id information.
What’s the purpose? We want to know how many active users we have and which API’s they use. That information helps us to optimize our offering and - to be clear on that - will help/enable us to raise funding for further research in this area.
Technology-PMC, such a calling home feature needs your and EMO(ED)'s approval. Does the Technology-PMC approve this proposal?
Best, Marcel
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