{"id":3231,"date":"2016-06-06T17:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:18:29","slug":"homebrew-and-opensource-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/06\/06\/homebrew-and-opensource-analytics","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew and opensource analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ran a quick <code>brew update<\/code>, and noticed the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>==&gt; Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics\nRead the analytics documentation (and how to opt-out) here:\n  https:\/\/git.io\/brew-analytics\nUpdated Homebrew from  to .\nUpdated 2 taps (caskroom\/cask, homebrew\/core).\nNo changes to formulae.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Its well worth reading the document: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Homebrew\/brew\/blob\/master\/share\/doc\/homebrew\/Analytics.md\">Homebrew&#8217;s Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour Analytics<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in support of this move, after all Homebrew is valuable for me, and the volunteers need to know where to place importance of their time. I guess its also important to know if they should support many versions of OS X (as of this writing, I am still running OS X 10.10 instead of having upgraded).<\/p>\n<p>Being non-server software, this is turned on by default. Imagine if we could do that with MariaDB Server and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.org\/feedback_plugin\/\">feedback plugin<\/a>? Its opt-in, and you don&#8217;t get statistics that &#8220;match reality&#8221; so to speak. E.g. some <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.org\/feedback_plugin\/stats\/server_count_by_month\/\">12k servers out there<\/a>, or how <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.org\/feedback_plugin\/stats\/os\/\">88% of users are using Microsoft Windows<\/a>. This number is wildly different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/mariadb.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/mariadb-maxscale-wins-2016-application-year-mysql-community-awards\">quoted 12 million users<\/a> in a recent press release. <\/p>\n<p>Opensource projects, especially venture backed opensource projects\/products, are always looking for metrics and usage statistics. The old adage at MySQL was that you were a user for about 3 years, before you even bought services. Its clear that we all need better metrics instead of <em>download numbers<\/em>. Kudos to Homebrew for being so brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I ran a quick brew update, and noticed the following: ==&gt; Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics Read the analytics documentation (and how to opt-out) here: https:\/\/git.io\/brew-analytics Updated Homebrew from to . Updated 2 taps (caskroom\/cask, homebrew\/core). No changes to formulae. Its well worth reading the document: Homebrew&#8217;s Anonymous Aggregate User Behaviour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1671,1406],"tags":[1838,1577],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distribution","category-oss","tag-analytics","tag-homebrew"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}