On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:16 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > 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. > > There are only two ways that I know of to track unique visitors. 1. > Cookies or 2. Explicit registration (or registration behind the scenes.) > > I suspect you're thinking of unique IPs (as greg mentions in other > email?) Or do pup + friends track using cookies? Then you're correct, we're not tracking anything besides unique ips. -sv _______________________________________________ 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
