As we start building parts of whimsy that are becoming key parts of organizational processes - like PMC updates - should we start tracking actual usage of various tools to see 1) which tools are widely used, and should be managed more carefully, and 2) tools that aren't used but might be valuable if we told users about them.
It would be simple to add Google Analytics to most tools in whimsy/asf/themes, but I'm wondering if we need that when we already have server logs that show what tools are being used. Is there enough data in existing server logs to be worth setting up a page to analyze them? Besides usage frequency, what else would be interesting to be able to analyze? - If user is a member, committer, or other (when known) - How the user got to that tool (i.e. where else on *.a.o websites are people finding out about the tool?) - If a user used the related tools listings to find and use other tools. - Whenever 500 errors are reported (since that usually means we need to fix something!) -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources
