cdms should report more details to anonymous usage sfotware

[doutriaux1]

at the moment we only report import cdms
at: https://github.com/UV-CDAT/cdms/blob/master/Lib/__init__.py#L6

I would like us to send some more detailed info as in genutil for example see:

https://github.com/UV-CDAT/genutil/blob/master/Lib/statistics.py#L705
https://github.com/UV-CDAT/genutil/blob/master/Lib/statistics.py#L747

or

https://github.com/UV-CDAT/cdutil/blob/master/Lib/times.py#L1281
https://github.com/UV-CDAT/cdutil/blob/master/Lib/times.py#L1305

Let me know if that is unclear

[jypeter]

What does this do exactly? I confess I select 'no' each time I start a completely new cdat installation and I am prompted for 'anonymous reporting'

• Can this block a script, in case you install a new CDAT and the first time you use cdms is in a script?
• Once you allow the anonymous reporting, will it be called each time you import cdms?
• Can this block a script when you are offline, or running cdms in some secure computing center?

When you ask the user if it's OK to allow reporting, maybe you can display a link (to the web site or github wiki) that the user can read to know what this is about

[doutriaux1]

@jypeter we are building the website. No it will not block a script, ever.

[jypeter]

OK!

[dnadeau4]

What is more details?

[doutriaux1]

this is really a cdat_info issue, not a cdms2 issue.