On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:39 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > > > hey guys, > > > The goal of this tracker is to determine how many folks we have > > > installing fedora, right? > > > > > > If we can assume that it is likely that a user will be using > > > yum/pirut/puplet in a default install then we should be able to gather > > > the information on how many folks are using it (hence installing fedora) > > > from the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlist generating program. It'll > > > track hits against it and we can then mine those logs for the number of > > > users w/o obtaining much other information than 'they used > > > yum/pirut/puplet'. > > > > > > It also requires nothing of us other than putting a log watcher on > > > fedoraproject.org. > > > > > > Does that track unique users or just hits? Hits isn't that interesting. > > Unique visitors is. > > it's just a url running under apache. It tracks what apache tracks > whenever someone hits a page. So, yes, definitely tracking unique > visitors. I'm perfectly happy to have a good answer that isn't as politically charged as putting an image on a web page -- so long as it gets us comparably useful data. So let's be clear about what the two scenarios would count: In the Firefox homepage scenario, we would count every unique IP for everyone who opens a browser window while connected. In the Yum mirror tracker scenario, we would count every unique IP for everyone who ever runs yum and talks to any repo. Do I understand correctly? --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
