Hi everyone, A short update from my end: with the help of Chesnay and Konstantin both the Project Website, all Flink documentation (back to 1.0) and the Statefun websites no longer send data to Google Analytics, only to Matomo. The privacy policy has also been adjusted and it includes an opt-out.
Anyone can view the results [1]. For example, you could now write a blog and see how well it's being read/visited by others. I'll drive some more implementations in the near future, for which you can follow the umbrella ticket. [2] Best regards, Martijn [1] https://matomo.privacy.apache.org/ [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25863 On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 18:55, David Morávek <david.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1, thanks for driving this Martijn > > On Fri 14. 1. 2022 at 15:01, Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On 14/01/2022 14:47, Till Rohrmann wrote: > > > Hi Martijn, > > > > > > big +1 for this effort. Thanks a lot for pushing this initiative > forward! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Till > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:49 AM Konstantin Knauf <kna...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Martijn, > > >> > > >> I think this is a great initiative. Thank you for pursuing this. It > > allows > > >> us to > > >> > > >> a) generate better insights into the usage of Apache Flink and its > > >> documentation as shown in the video > > >> a) do this in a privacy preserving way and > > >> c) act as a role model for other Apache projects on this matter > > >> > > >> Big +1. I am happy to help, if I can. > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> Konstantin > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:21 AM Martijn Visser < > mart...@ververica.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi everyone, > > >>> > > >>> The Flink website currently uses Google Analytics to track how > visitors > > >> of > > >>> the website are interacting with it. It provides insights into which > > >>> documentation pages are visited, how users are using the website > > (what's > > >>> the cycle of pages they visit before exiting the page), if they are > > >>> downloading Flink etc. However, the Apache Software Foundation > > >> discourages > > >>> using Google Analytics [1] unless meeting certain requirements. The > > Flink > > >>> website currently does not meet those requirements. > > >>> > > >>> I do believe that it's useful to understand what parts of a website > are > > >>> important to users, what features are most frequently read up on, > where > > >>> they get lost in the docs, etc. so we can better understand how users > > use > > >>> the system, the website, and the docs and where to focus improvements > > >> next. > > >>> I would like to move the Flink website from Google Analytics to an > > >>> alternative as soon as possible for Flink. I would be in favour of > > >> opening > > >>> up insights to this data for everyone too, it's public data anyway. > > >>> > > >>> For the past couple of months, I've been engaging in a conversation > > with > > >>> ASF Legal and ASF Infra about setting up a privacy-friendly > alternative > > >> for > > >>> Google Analytics for all ASF projects via the priv...@apache.org > > mailing > > >>> list (I can't find a public web archive link for this unfortunately). > > As > > >>> part of that discussion, I've done a test with the open source and > > >>> self-hosted version of Matomo [2], taking a look at the privacy > > >>> implications and the functionality that this tool offers. You can > > watch a > > >>> recording of that experiment [3] and view the test setup I've used > [4]. > > >>> > > >>> The current status is that ASF Legal, ASF Infra and I have agreed to > > take > > >>> the next step on this project. This step means that: > > >>> > > >>> * I set up Matomo on a VM provided by ASF Infra > > >>> * A new DNS name is created (either https://analytics.apache.org/ or > > >>> https://matomo.analytics.apache.org/) by ASF Infra > > >>> * The Flink website is adjusted to remove the tracking from Google > > >>> Analytics and include the necessary Javascript to allow tracking of > the > > >>> Flink website and documentation in Matomo > > >>> > > >>> If this test would be successful, ASF Infra would take over the > hosting > > >> of > > >>> this solution and provide it to all ASF projects. > > >>> > > >>> I would like to understand from the Flink community: > > >>> > > >>> 1. Do you think this is a good idea? > > >>> > > >>> 2. If yes, I need a couple of PMCs for requesting a VM from Apache > > Infra > > >>> [5] > > >>> > > >>> Best regards, > > >>> > > >>> Martijn > > >>> https://twitter.com/MartijnVisser82 > > >>> > > >>> [1] https://privacy.apache.org/faq/committers.html > > >>> [2] https://matomo.org/ > > >>> [3] > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yomYhLoyrzBW620bpn_dROiwyvSCzuvt/view?usp=sharing > > >>> [4] https://github.com/MartijnVisser/matomo-analytics > > >>> [5] https://infra.apache.org/vm-for-project.html > > >>> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> Konstantin Knauf > > >> > > >> https://twitter.com/snntrable > > >> > > >> https://github.com/knaufk > > >> > > > > >
