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6 Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest - The Padre Popularity Contest
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9 The Padre Popularity Contest is a plug-in that collects various
10 information about your Padre installation as it runs, and reports that
11 information over the Internet to a central server.
12 The information collected from the Popularity Contest plug-in is used
14 by the development team to track the adoption rate of different
15 features, to help set the default configuration values, and to
16 prioritise development focus.
17 In other words, to make life better for you in the next release, and
19 the ones after that.
20 What information will we collect?
22 At the moment, the following information is collected:
23 Run time of Padre (Time between start and exit of Padre)
25 Type of operating system (platform only: Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.)
26 Padre version number
27 Perl, Wx and wxWidgets version numbers
28 Number of times each menu option is used (directly or via shortcut or
29 toolbar)
30 MIME type of files (like "text/plain" or "application/perl") which are
31 opened in Padre
32 In addition, a random process ID for Padre is created and transmitted
34 just to identify multiple reports from a single running instance of
35 Padre. It doesn't match or contain your OS process ID but it allows us
36 to count duplicate reports from a single running copy only once. A new
37 ID is generated each time you start Padre and it doesn't allow any
38 identification of you or your computer.
39 The following information may be added sooner or later:
41 Enabled/disabled features (like: are tool tips enabled or not?)
43 Selected Padre language
44 I feel observed.
46 Disable this module and no information would be transmitted at all.
47 All information is anonymous and can't be tracked to you, but it helps
49 the developer team to know which functions and features are used and
50 which aren't.
51 This is an open source project and you're invited to check what this
53 module does by just opening Padre/Plugin/PopularityContest.pm and check
54 that it does.
55 What information WON'T we collect?
57 There are some things we can be very clear about.
58 1. We will NEVER begin to collect information of any kind without you
60 first explicitly telling us we are allowed to collect that type of
61 information.
62 2. We will NEVER copy any information that would result in a violation
64 of your legal rights, including copyright. That means we won't
65 collect, record, or transmit the contents of any file.
66 3. We will NEVER transmit the name of any file, or the cryptographic
68 hash of any file, or any other unique identifier of any file, although
69 we may need to record them locally as index keys or for optimisation
70 purposes.
71 3. We will NEVER transmit any information that relates to you
73 personally unless you have given it to us already (in which case we'll
74 only send an account identifier, not the details themselves).
75 4. We will NEVER transmit any information about your operating system,
77 or any information about your network that could possibly compromise
78 security in any way.
79 5. We will take as much care as we can to ensure that the collection,
81 analysis, compression and/or transmission of your information consumes
82 as little resources as possible, and we will in particular attempt to
83 minimize the resource impact while you are actively coding.
84 Finally, if you really don't trust us (or you aren't allowed to trust
86 us because you work inside a secure network) then we encourage you to
87 delete this plug-in entirely.
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90 See the support section of the main Padre module.
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93 Copyright 2008-2011 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.
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96 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
97 under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
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