search

ckan / ckanext-googleanalytics

CKAN extension to integrate Google Analytics data into CKAN. Gives download stats on package pages, list of most popular packages, etc.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
35 stars 80 forks source link

Consider merging datagovuk/ckanext-ga-report #8

Open rossjones opened 10 years ago

rossjones commented 10 years ago

The https://github.com/datagovuk/ckanext-ga-report extension provides usage information and charts based on the information collected in GA (see http://data.gov.uk/data/site-usage for the information we collect). It may well be worth merging into this repository (which will definitely need some work) as they are most definitely related.

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Seems a good idea. Would you be up for overseeing a merge?

rossjones commented 10 years ago

I think this is being re-written at DGU to be cleaner because it got out of hand really quickly.

On further reflection I don't think this should be a plugin at all. I think the key code for embedding GA codes (or Piwik codes) should be managed directly in core. Having the code in another extension is just a pain. The code for other stuff should be put into a 'ckanext-reports' package for generating publisher reports. This should also contain the ckanext-qa reports (so that qa can be more easily merged with archiver).

nigelbabu commented 10 years ago

@rossjones The more complex analytics features that we advertise don't work anymore, so I'm happy to work with you on a merge if you're interested.

rossjones commented 10 years ago

I don't think a merge of the GA stuff makes sense. I need it needs fixing another way.

Reports on usage are a key feature for publishers. And that's what ga_reports provides, but it is such a heinous mess that I think it's just delaying the inevitable. I'd definitely suggest fixing the complex parts another way, or waiting until DGU have finished their rework (which I believe uses Pandas).