On 10/5/06, Chris Ricker <kaboom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Max Spevack wrote: Is wrong data really any better than no data? We already have wrong data ("somewhere between 10 thousand and 10 million, we think") if that's all you're wanting. And we know the proposed counting method (ip-based web hit) will be wrong data as well.... later, chris
Its about interpretation. While individual IP's != individual users, it is the closet thing we can come with short notice and without a call-home feature. One thing we could do is generate a key for each user and append it to the end of the users URI to which yum connects. Some might consider that evil though. Even still, unique IP's will get us additional information about geographic location, times users connect, architecture's being run, etc. Long term though it will be nice to see how many users continue to try to use EOL'd releases. For example when FC6 gets moved to legacy and then removed all together, how many people are still trying to update it. If we're interested, defaulting to network based installs may aid in this as well but is outside the scope of this discussion. -Mike _______________________________________________ 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