Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest(3pm)

NAME

       Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest - The Padre Popularity Contest

DESCRIPTION

       The Padre Popularity Contest is a plug-in that collects various information about your Padre installation as it runs, and reports that
       information over the Internet to a central server.

       The information collected from the Popularity Contest plug-in is used by the development team to track the adoption rate of different
       features, to help set the default configuration values, and to prioritise development focus.

       In other words, to make life better for you in the next release, and the ones after that.

   What information will we collect?
       At the moment, the following information is collected:

       Run time of Padre (Time between start and exit of Padre)
       Type of operating system (platform only: Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.)
       Padre version number
       Perl, Wx and wxWidgets version numbers
       Number of times each menu option is used (directly or via shortcut or toolbar)
       MIME type of files (like "text/plain" or "application/perl") which are opened in Padre

       In addition, a random process ID for Padre is created and transmitted just to identify multiple reports from a single running instance of
       Padre. It doesn't match or contain your OS process ID but it allows us to count duplicate reports from a single running copy only once.	A
       new ID is generated each time you start Padre and it doesn't allow any identification of you or your computer.

       The following information may be added sooner or later:

       Enabled/disabled features (like: are tool tips enabled or not?)
       Selected Padre language

   I feel observed.
       Disable this module and no information would be transmitted at all.

       All information is anonymous and can't be tracked to you, but it helps the developer team to know which functions and features are used and
       which aren't.

       This is an open source project and you're invited to check what this module does by just opening Padre/Plugin/PopularityContest.pm and
       check that it does.

   What information WON'T we collect?
       There are some things we can be very clear about.

       1. We will NEVER begin to collect information of any kind without you first explicitly telling us we are allowed to collect that type of
       information.

       2. We will NEVER copy any information that would result in a violation of your legal rights, including copyright.  That means we won't
       collect, record, or transmit the contents of any file.

       3. We will NEVER transmit the name of any file, or the cryptographic hash of any file, or any other unique identifier of any file, although
       we may need to record them locally as index keys or for optimisation purposes.

       3. We will NEVER transmit any information that relates to you personally unless you have given it to us already (in which case we'll only
       send an account identifier, not the details themselves).

       4. We will NEVER transmit any information about your operating system, or any information about your network that could possibly compromise
       security in any way.

       5. We will take as much care as we can to ensure that the collection, analysis, compression and/or transmission of your information
       consumes as little resources as possible, and we will in particular attempt to minimize the resource impact while you are actively coding.

       Finally, if you really don't trust us (or you aren't allowed to trust us because you work inside a secure network) then we encourage you to
       delete this plug-in entirely.

SUPPORT

       See the support section of the main Padre module.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2008-2012 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-27				     Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest(3pm)