I agree with Thomas that doing this is the same as saying that the statistics feature is removed (and moved to the attic), ie it’s not usable any more.
Generally speaking, I think it’s interesting to have a statistics module in XWiki and that we need one. We need it for several reasons:
- To be able to have fine-grained stats that cannot be obtained using Matomo or the like. One example is number of users viewing pages belonging to a given extension, but there are plenty more.
- To be able to have features in XWiki needing stats. For example, imagine an extension that would allow some access to a feature of the wiki based on the level of contribution of the user.
So one idea would be to:
- Remove the current stats modules/code (xwiki-attic) and explain how to get it back for users who absolutely need it.
- Create a design page to imagine a next-generation stats feature (using a NoSQL DB most likely, and extensible so that extensions can add new stats to it). As part of the UCs, we could list the need to count the usage of a given feature of XWiki (how many times a feature is used).
- Then find some time to work on it…
WDYT?