Feature/telemetry

[baristaGeek]

Description

This PR inserts PostHog tracking to the plugin itself. Unlike what we're already tracking, we are able to track local usage (pre-authentication usage) as we do on VS Code.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update
• Chore: cleanup/renaming, etc
• RFC

Notes

Gradle doesn't allow us to retrieve environment variables from gradle.properties on any file as the gradle configuration file (build.gradle.kts) does or as we do on NextJS by retrieving variables from a .env file. Whenever we build and publish we have to insert the Posthog API key manually. Running without the proper API key inserted doesn't produce any breaking change and the plugin runs normally.

Acceptance

• I have read the Contributing guidelines
• I have read the Code of Conduct

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WatermelonAI Summary

The four commits in this Pull Request are focused on adding PostHog tracking to the plugin. The first commit adds the PostHog dependency and sends the first event with a unique identifier. The second commit tracks the activation of the application. The third commit tracks the login action. And the fourth commit solves an issue related to storing and retrieving environment variables by forcing the developer to manually insert the PostHog API key. This implementation enables tracking of local usage before authentication, similar to how it is done in VS Code.

GitHub PRs

• #43 - Feature/telemetry

• #311 - Add conditional if the count passes 500

• #42 - Feature/UI improvements

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[EstebanDalelR]

I'd do it as:
posthog.capture(PermanentInstallationID.get(), "intelliJ:nameOfEvent");
unless that is an async operation

[EstebanDalelR]

closes #39