On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:06:49PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Last night, as I was launching Stellaris, I got the rare but occasional
> Steam Hardware Survey popup. I'm always happy when I do, because I get to
> represent gaming on Fedora platforms. ("I'm helping!")
>
> Then, this morning, there's the discussion of btrfs compression options, for
> which it would obviously be useful for us to know the typical Fedora
> Workstation user's hard drive and CPU characteristics.
>
> I know some of us have been thinking about implementing a system-info
> metrics tool similar to what Endless presented at last GUADEC, or what
> Canonical does for Ubuntu. I'm not ruling those out, but what if we had
> something (a shell extension? something else?) that would unobtrusively
> offer a survey, with a chance of happening on a given system maybe twice a
> year?
Yes, please!
Some people are justifiably worried about privacy, so any solution
like this should be opt-in. But I think we would be able to make our Fedora
more useful by knowing what type of systems we are really targeting.
A similar consideration applies to package profiles: I would love to
see the equivalent of Debian's popcon implemented in Fedora. Opt-in.
It'd guide the work of packagers so that they'd know which packages are
actually worth spending time on.
Zbyszek
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