On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 08:31:54AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Hi! > > We have a few netdev-related bots with various simple status pages. > I hooked them up to analytics recently, here's the dash: > https://plausible.io/netdev.bots.linux.dev > > Plausible was described here: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ > it's supposedly-open, and privacy-focused, no cookies etc. > > It's useful for me when deciding where to invest my time, > and to back up the efforts to my employer with some data. > > Now, most of us agree that kernel docs leave something to be desired. > At the same time maintainers are repeatedly faced with people who post > code without reading the docs, which puts the time invested in writing > them into question. I can't help but think that providing some > analytics for docs.kernel.org traffic would be beneficial. > I would use it. > > Thoughts? > > Does anyone think that even non-intrusive analytics are a no go? In general, my previous experience enabling libravatar on git.kernel.org has taught me that many very vocal people *really* don't like to have any kind of statistics gathered about them. However, if it's just for docs.kernel.org, then I don't think I have specific objections. That said, I would need help turning this on -- if someone can pass me along a Sphinx configuration option that I can enable during build time, then I'll be happy to add it to our build jobs. -K
