Christopher Blizzard wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:54 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
The problem with the smolt numbers is that anyone doing kickstarts,
installing via runlevel 3, yum upgrades or anaconda upgrades will
never
get prompted to enable smolt and there are privacy concerns just
enabling it by default. So I think the only way we can do it is
start
to seed people now, get the word out about smolt, and start
monitoring
upgrades from F7 to F8 and so on.
What happens in the case that the network stuff isn't up when smolt runs
during startup? Did it end up being able to wait for the network and
queue it for later? I'm a little surprised that the number of units
that we have is as small as it is, and how few of them are laptops. Or
maybe it's just that our support for laptops is so bad that no one is
bothering anymore. :)
It keeps trying as best as it can until network comes up. If all that
fails (say a reboot is required before network comes up) the monthly
smolt checkin will start up and we'll get them a month after they
install. The monthly checkin will also let us do queries on 'active'
users say people that have submitted in the last 6 months or 12 months.
Would be nice to move smolt out of just the firstboot and do some user
surveys as well, but I guess we haven't speced that out and haven't had
time to do the work to make that happen.
Well we do have smoltGui available and we're working on adding a rating
system for the entire profile as well as individual devices. The
question is how to get people to run it.
-Mike
-Mike
