On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:35 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > On 10/4/06, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > >> > >> > I hope you are understanding it correctly because that is how I > >> > understand it. I think this is the best idea I have heard so far. > >> > >> There is a subset of users -- we don't know how large -- who will never > >> use yum because either (a) they won't have the bandwidth to use it, or > >> (b) > >> they won't even understand that they need to use it. > >> > >> I still think that the Firefox technique will give us a better > >> cross-section of data. > >> > >> Let me think about it. I need to send a note to the docs folks anyway -- > >> part apology, part analysis. I'll cc: this group as well. > >> > > > > Just pointing out that about half of the machines I install FC on > > don't have X installed, much less firefox. > > That's a good reason to put a tool in that does register new servers. > Well, maybe register is the wrong word. That implies a lot of things to > me. But certainly "get counted." Which is different than "track." > > I guess it's good to talk about the metrics we're interested in. That > will drive how we build something: > > 1. Tracking unique desktop users. Also, how long do they use it for? > On the weekends? On weekdays? Do they stop after a number of days of > use? One day never to return? These are very useful statistics in > realizing what kind of job we're doing. > that's more invasive than I think we should be. we can count the total number of connections and we can count the connections to which distro and on which days. But we SHOULD NOT track a given ip to figure out what they're doing and/or when. That's inappropriate and I will resist it. -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
