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Need attribute to track downloads in the application schema #442

Open kevdavis-adobe opened 6 years ago

kevdavis-adobe commented 6 years ago

The application schema provides attributes to track application installs, launches, closes, etc. but nowhere to track downloads. Downloads seems like a natural iteration of the application schema.

What are the schemas that are affected by the issue

/context/application

What are examples of products that are impacted by the issue

unknown

lrosenthol commented 6 years ago

@kevdavis-adobe what do you mean by "downloads"? The application is already downloaded and installed on a device before any of these events are invoked - so what would you be tracking here?!?

kevdavis-adobe commented 6 years ago

The intention is to track downloads of applications, such as Photoshop. If the application is already downloaded & installed before these events are invoked, I'm confused why the event would include a count of installs.

Is there another schema that would be more appropriate to capture downloads of applications?

lrosenthol commented 6 years ago

downloads of applications from where? From something like Thor? From a site?

cdegroot-adobe commented 6 years ago

@lrosenthol - I think this is the exact consideration we need to make. Is a download of an installer for an app an app-event, or something else, and if it is something else what is it.

We could look at the installer as an asset and have reconcile this with concepts like documents(PDF), media for offline viewing(movies) or archives(zips).

lrosenthol commented 6 years ago

@cdegroot-adobe agreed and well stated.

kevdavis-adobe commented 6 years ago

Good discussion. For our use cases, we're looking at both downloads from and installer (e.g. Photoshop CC via Thor) and from a website (e.g. Photoshop Elements)