While there may be technical issues out there, the policy issues can have time for a thorough discussion before we make policy updates.
Alex Harui wrote on 6/5/17 11:25 PM: > Is the use of Google Analytics also prohibited by #4? That sounds like a different issue, unless a project is shipping docs inside a release with GA code *in* the html docs that are then run when a user installs the docs locally. That would not be a good idea, BTW. As Bertrand notes elsethread, GA on *.apache.org websites is fine as long as the PMC is sure to comply with the ASF privacy policy: https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/privacy.html Separately, we have one example of auto-update checking which is OK: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Service > > -Alex > > On 6/5/17, 8:16 PM, "shaposh...@gmail.com on behalf of Roman Shaposhnik" > <shaposh...@gmail.com on behalf of ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Thanks for the explanation, Roman. I had no idea that policies for >>> hosted binaries >>> were stricter than for source code (other than the obvious effect on >>> licensing when you bundle in dependencies). >> >> Btw, this one is serious enough that I'd like us to update our release >> policy based on the >> learnings here. >> >> So far it seems that there's an agreement on that having this type of >> capability... >> 1 ... in the source code disabled by default -- totally OK >> 2 ... in the source code enabled by default -- questionable, but OK >> 3 ... in the binary hosted by ASF disabled by default -- OK >> 4 ... in the binary hosted by ASF enabled by default -- NOT OK >> >> #4 can get nuanced if we want to invest in ASF managed infrastructure >> that is >> responsible for update tracking and user data collection. With my ASF hat >> on, >> I'd say that INFRA should probably stay away from user data >> collection/retention. >> >> That still leaves a possibility of a a ping/pong API that only >> consumes a name of ASF >> project and its version and returns a JSON object of some kind as per >> PMC choice. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
