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 2008-2013 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 v5.18.1                                       2013-11-09              Padre::Plugin::PopularityContest(3pm)