Author: gjb
Date: Thu May 2 11:16:59 2013
New Revision: 41538
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41538
Log:
Formalize and publish the Google Analytics policy for FreeBSD
developers.
Reviewed by: doceng (hrs, gabor (previous version))
Approved by: doceng (implicit)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Wed May 1 20:25:00 2013 (r41537)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Thu May 2 11:16:59 2013 (r41538)
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
"../../../share/xml/freebsd42.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % entities PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook FreeBSD Entity Set//EN" "../../share/xml/entities.ent">
%entities;
+<!ENTITY ga "Google Analytics">
]>
<article lang='en'>
@@ -4152,6 +4153,73 @@ bak/packages packages from last complet
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="google-analytics">
+ <title>Information about &ga;</title>
+
+ <para>As of December 12, 2012, &ga; was enabled on the
+ &os; Project website to collect anonymized usage statistics
+ regarding usage of the site. The information collected is
+ valuable to the &os; Documentation Project, in order to
+ identify various problems on the &os; website.</para>
+
+ <sect2 id="google-analytics-policy">
+ <title>&ga; General Policy</title>
+
+ <para>The &os; Project takes visitor privacy very
+ seriously. As such, the &os; Project website honors the
+ <quote>Do Not Track</quote> header <emphasis>before</emphasis>
+ fetching the tracking code from Google. For more information,
+ please see the <ulink
+ url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/privacy.html">&os; Privacy
+ Policy</ulink>.</para>
+
+ <para>&ga; access is <emphasis>not</emphasis> arbitrarily
+ allowed — access must be requested, voted on by the
+ &a.doceng;, and explicitly granted.</para>
+
+ <para>Requests for &ga; data must include a specific purpose.
+ For example, a valid reason for requesting access would be
+ <quote>to see the most frequently used web browsers when
+ viewing &os; web pages to ensure page rendering speeds are
+ acceptable.</quote></para>
+
+ <para>Conversely, <quote>to see what web browsers are most
+ frequently used</quote> (without stating
+ <emphasis>why</emphasis>) would be rejected.</para>
+
+ <para>All requests must include the timeframe for which the data
+ would be required. For example, it must be explicitly stated
+ if the requested data would be needed for a timeframe covering
+ a span of 3 weeks, or if the request would be one-time
+ only.</para>
+
+ <para>Any request for &ga; data without a clear, reasonable
+ reason beneficial to the &os; Project will be
+ rejected.</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="google-analytics-data">
+ <title>Data Available Through &ga;</title>
+
+ <para>A few examples of the types of &ga; data available
+ include:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Commonly used web browsers</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Page load times</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Site access by language</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="perks">
<title>Perks of the Job</title>