So I just checked the results that were listed of the community survey of last year. It does include interesting information about architecture, use case, and nextcloud version in use, but not about php…
I will make sure this gets linked on Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials too.
Of course this will not solve the issue of the AI you mentioned. If we allow for such central data collection, let’s at least try to encourage really consent / good opt in standards that are not a take-it-or-leave-it choice.
Bottom line I still think your initiative makes sense.
Just suggesting a path forward here to be constructive, but you can ignore all if you think it makes no sense:
Write a documentation page introducing the domain, what it’s for, and how to use it. Can be a forum thread.
Make a decision about using it for usage statistics: should we allow data collection about infrastructure, or should this be put in a more central, more explicit opt-in, questionnaire
Make a decision about other fair use standards, e.g. regarding data collection needed to train an AI model.
Update the documentation with those decisions
Ask Daphne to link it on Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials