[Osdc-edu-authors] please cancel daily reports to this address - thanks!

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:07:17PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 13:22 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 05:22:26PM -0400, Mary Bitter wrote:
> > > So it seems like the verdict is to kill the daily reports.  What about  
> > > the weekly reports?
> > 
> > Wow, I just looked at the report again; opaque is kind.
> > 
> > Let's do a weekly report that sums up the week, which might be enough
> > data in aggregate to be worth the wade-through.
> 
> Was also a little surprised that we needed proprietary software to run
> analytics on "opensource.com". Is there no way we can dogfood this?

We can, and I suspect it will require external help, at least in
identifying a solution.  The main technical work done on the site is
via Acquia, so if we found a Drupal module that did equivalent work,
that would be great.

If it's outside of the Drupal scope, it might require technical
expertise as well.  But if it's something we can ask Acquia to do,
even if it means we ask them to do some custom coding, let's at least
take a look at what that will cost.

I think using Omniture was part of the "getting things going", since
it's the tool used for redhat.com et al and so provides an integrated
report for whoever is interested in what Red Hat's presence on the web
is like.

For a similar story, when we found the Omniture code was in the
template for fedora.redhat.com, we removed it.  We had all the server
logs, and preferred to work upwards from there.  I think the main tool
used now is 'awstats', which makes nice enough graphs but doesn't
provide all the fancy slicing and dicing that Omniture does.

Having the capability to slice and dice Drupal, if it doesn't already
exist, would be a pretty major boon for Red Hat to (get) code(d) back
to the community.

- Karsten
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