Telemetry

[arjunmadan]

• Log where stuff is copied from
• Timestamps
• Anything else??

[arjunmadan]

• External application that monitors when there's a copy/paste/cut event.
• Log active window, copied/pasted content, time.

[arjunmadan]

• Now possible to log all copy/cut events system wide. Stores the string copied, time, and active window (window where the string was copied from).
• To do: log pastes.
  • One solution: integrate paste logging with the extensions since it's the only way (I can think of) that would allow us to only detect pastes in Atom.
  • Another solution: Check if active window is Atom while pasting, and log only if this is true. (Will look at this first).

[arjunmadan]

An interesting problem I just encountered:

Integrating the logging with the Atom extension code would result in only the stuff being copied from within Atom being logged, but having it separate would result in us losing information about what is being pasted since the clipboard is local to Atom.

One solution I have is to use a separate logger for logging copy and cut events (basically when the contents of the clipboard change), and having a separate logger that runs from within the extension. This would basically just be a block of code that writes to a file with the same information as the copy logger.

We could then merge the data, and sort based on the timestamp in order to get an accurate representation of how the extension is being used.

I'll have the block of code ready by the 24th, and we can spend the last few days integrating it to make sure it works fine.