[COMDEV-534] 3rd party downloads not allowed by privacy policy

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Projects Tool
• difficulty-level: Easy
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 31/Aug/23 23:30
• Updated: 23/Oct/24 18:48

Description

The projects.a.o website relies on Google charts.

AFAIK, we don't have a privacy agreement for these, and according to the terms of use, they cannot be used downloaded and used locally:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/faq#offline

Some possible solutions:

• use an alternative charting library that is not in conflict with the Privacy Policy
• ask the user's permission before making requests to such 3rd party sites; if the user refuses, charts and graphs cannot be displayed, but the site should otherwise continue to function
• find some way of proxying the requests via an ASF host that strips out all client-specific headers.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: COMDEV-546 project.apache.org uses google charts