Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 11:17:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41538 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide Message-ID: <201305021117.r42BH0cY013656@svn.freebsd.org>
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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 ============================================================================== --- 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>
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