From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Purcell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should the default value of url-user-agent include a version number? What about the specific case of package.el? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:17:21 +1300 Message-ID: References: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458861472 22955 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2016 23:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 00:17:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ajEVa-00047L-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:17:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajEVY-0002IS-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajEVW-0002I8-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajEVR-0007Rz-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: from purcellpeople.com ([85.214.32.38]:49238 helo=h1189701.stratoserver.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajEVQ-0007Rt-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Mandala.local (unknown [210.54.38.43]) by h1189701.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2F4627AC0A3; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:17:25 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <56F42269.10400@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel"'s message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2016 13:22:49 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 85.214.32.38 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202205 Archived-At: As a MELPA maintainer, I'd be very keen to be able to provide users and package authors with package downloads stats broken down by emacs version and/or platform. I don't personally see any tangible privacy concerns with this proposal; it would be fine for this specific use case to set a more informative User-Agent header only for requests initiated by package.el if that's an issue.