[TYPO3-dev] Central Install/Deinstall-Counter; Was:Number of extensions

[Steffen Ritter]

Stefan Geith wrote:
> mario schrieb:
>> how difficult would it be to check whether who developed an extension is
>> still active? I would trust much more extensions whose developer is
>> still around. It should be easy to update TER with a couple of lines 
>> from the
>> extension's author(s) every couple of months.
> 
> Sadly, the download-counter doesn't work correct anymore ...
> I know, the count of downloads does nor really correspond to the quality 
> of a extension, but this information could be helpfull.
> 
> Another idea about some helpfull informations on extensions:
> There colud/should be a counter on how often an extenson was installed 
> and deinstalled on all Typo3-Installs:
> Everytimes someone installes or deinstalls an extension, this could be 
> counted on a central place (without any other details; simply a 
> counter). I think this should be easy to add to EM.
> And the relation of installs vs. deinstalls could give some hints, 
> whether a extension was useful or not ...
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> /Stefan
At all, this is a nice idea, but it should be disabled by default.
It's like "help to improove the quality". Most software's have this 
nowadays. Office, Firefox, Winamp, Skype... If it's configurable why not 
collect anonymized data. We also should add the possibility to send an 
anonym report from be_usertrack (or sth like this).
If it's "free to choose" wether use it or not, i'm for sth like this.