My Last Week’s Eclipse Usage
I found a cool plugin couple of weeks ago, Ergo by Channing Walton. It monitors the shortcut and menu invocations usage of Eclipse.
I soon discovered that I’d like to know what shortcuts other users use. I whipped up a patch that would let the plugin users specify a reporting URL. Channing liked the idea, open-sourced the plugin and gave me access.
Last week I had the plugin enabled and now I produced a page of the statistics. The stats show that I was pasting all last week 
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I was also introduced to the EPP’s Usage Data Collector. I have not checked if it also monitors actions’ invocations. If it does not we’ll try to propose a patch of some sort.
I’ll be uploading my stats for another couple of weeks and compare to my colleagues and see if I can find anything interesting.
If anybody is interested in seeing their stats they can download the plugin from the project’s page and use “http://tom.jabber.ee/reporting/” as the URL. Every installation is generated a UUID and if you specify the reporting URL your workspace/.metadata/.plugins/com.stateofflow.ergo/commands.properties will be reported to the specified url every 1 hour. The stats can be seen from http://tom.jabber.ee/reporting/result.php?uuid=YOUR-UUID