Anonymous yet Voluntary Usage Data Submission

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Add way for developers and site owners to send GetSimple anonymous data back to 
the GS servers so that we can see who/what/how people are using our software.

This should be in the form of a periodic popup or email. It should also be a 
one time deal - so if it's dismissed or if it's submitted - it should never 
reappear again. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ccagle8 on 2 Dec 2011 at 8:04

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This will be in the form of a Plugin included with the core, and it's almost 
done. This is the only requirement I had that was not yet started for the 
release of 3.1. 

Original comment by ccagle8 on 8 Dec 2011 at 2:29

[GoogleCodeExporter]

So I presume refusing to participate in data collection would be as easy as 
turning off (or deleting) a plugin?

Original comment by jos...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2011 at 3:36

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Exactly, but its even easier... The plugin requires you to actually "submit" 
your data - nothing is sent out involuntarily without anyone's approval. 

I hope the community and developers like yourself see the value in something 
like this - It gives us a great idea of how people are using GS. It's better 
than a survey sent out to community members because this will pull real data 
from your installation... below is an example data submission:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
 <submission_date>2011-12-08T08:16:38-05:00</submission_date>
 <getsimple_version>3.1B</getsimple_version>
 <language>en_US</language>
 <timezone>America/New_York</timezone>
 <php_version>5.2.17</php_version>
 <server_type>FreeBSD</server_type>
 <modules_missing>["ZipArchive"]</modules_missing>
 <number_pages>18</number_pages>
 <number_plugins>4</number_plugins>
 <number_files>44</number_files>
 <number_themes>1</number_themes>
 <number_backups>2</number_backups>
 <number_users>1</number_users>
 <domain_tld>info</domain_tld>
 <install_date>02-11-2011</install_date>
 <category>Internet</category>
 <link_back>yes</link_back>
</data>

Original comment by ccagle8 on 8 Dec 2011 at 3:57

[GoogleCodeExporter]

These two data elements are going to be dropdowns that you can select before 
you submit your data (not required of course):

<category>Internet</category>
<link_back>yes</link_back>

Original comment by ccagle8 on 8 Dec 2011 at 3:58

[GoogleCodeExporter]

added in latest commit

Original comment by ccagle8 on 12 Dec 2011 at 2:25

• Changed state: Fixed