Marketplace data improvement for publishers

[skofman1]

This issue is transferred from: NuGet/NuGetGallery#8135

This issue has been moved from a ticket on Developer Community.

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Hello

Is it possible to get historical data displayed for publishers - from the time the extension was published. Currently it is limited to past 180 days window, which is very limiting. Can you expand that to as much as possible.

I am primarily interested in two improvements

1. Extending the current report window (180 days). Idealy this window would be 1 year +... if not, since the very first day extension was introduced on the marketplace.

2. Ability to filter by geography - per country and continent... when this info is known. I am OK with having a pool of people who are also 'unknown' if geo info is not available.

Thanks

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Original Comments

Jane Wu [MSFT] on 5/14/2019, 01:52 AM:

Thank you for taking the time to provide your suggestion. We will do some preliminary checks to make sure we can proceed further. We'll provide an update once the issue has been triaged by the product team.

#### Mads Kristensen [MSFT] on 6/10/2019, 11:20 AM:

Your suggestion has been queued up for prioritization. Feature suggestions are prioritized based on the value to our broader developer community and the product roadmap. We may not be able to pursue this one immediately, but we will continue to monitor it up to 90 days for community input

Stefan Stefanov on 7/2/2019, 10:50 AM:

I also believe this would be very beneficial, as the current date is not enough to make any conclusions.

Gabriel Torok on 12/2/2019, 06:10 AM:

Likewise, this would be helpful for us as well.

Katie DeSantis on 12/2/2019, 06:32 AM:

We too would benefit from this information

Dan Wright on 12/2/2019, 08:44 AM:

This would be really beneficial for us too.

Thanks.

andre rolle on 12/2/2019, 03:35 PM:

Yes we definitely need this information to help improve our capabilities in improving how we create and published our application in visual studios marketplace.

andre rolle on 12/2/2019, 03:49 PM:

The management of Microsoft would change there mind in extending the 90 days to at least 1 year if possible. We as developers and others who interact with creating and publishing an application or software to visual studios marketplace. Really need this information to improve everything we do to make our app 100% functional an smooth going.

[RandomFractals]

Linking this jumbo ticket we had in vscode repo that covers similar extensions dashboard issues and more from vscode extension developers: microsoft/vscode#94744

@prashantvc please port them into this repo when you get a chance.

[alefragnani]

Moving the discussion from microsoft/vscode#94744 (comment), as suggested by @isidorn.

It's related to some usage related infos, that could be added to the dashboard, with data coming from VS Code.

The infos are:

• OS (Windows / MacOS / Linux)
• Flavor (Desktop / Codespaces / GitHub.dev)
• Remote (Docker / SSH / WSL)
• Activation Time
• Locale

Right from the beginning, I would like to know which OS my extension was being used, mostly because I only had Windows available and had no chance to support MacOS/Linux. That's why I opened microsoft/vscode#4801. This week VS code retweet https://twitter.com/prshntvc/status/1430132093758156805?s=20, and it revived my request, with a bit more scenarios.

Today, VS Code runs not only different OS but also flavors like Remotes, Codespaces and GitHub.dev, and because extensions can be installed via Settings Sync (not the Extension View), maybe the Marketplace won't know about it.

Thank you

cc @eamodio, @usernamehw, @isidorn

[isidorn]

As I mentioned in the other issue: I believe the whole dashboard experience should be on the marketplace side, and some data should come from VS Code.
@skofman1 @prashantvc once you decide to enhance this let me know and we can figure out how can VS Code send data which you potentially do not have (activation time etc...).

[lukecotter]

I think it has already been mentioned but number of active users would be the most important for me. After that having active users by version would be amazing.

[sovetski]

Coming from: microsoft/vscode#94744

Any idea on how to get "active installations" number of our extension?
Actually, we see only the number of total unique installations

[anandgupta42]

@seaniyer Do you have a timeline for when these features will be prioritized?

[seaniyer]

@anandgupta42 Improvements to reporting is an important item on our roadmap but it is not planned for the next 3 months, as the team is focusing on higher-priority security and scalability items. I'll keep this thread posted when a timeline becomes available.