Re: Simple analytics for docs.kernel.org and patchwork, please?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

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