On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, yersinia <yersinia.spiros@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Look interesting from a QA point of view. > > How exactly is this interesting from a QA pov in Fedora? Smolt > profiles I can understand being useful for QA because it gives us some > ability to look for commonalities when troubleshooting hardware > problems. I'm really not sure what installed packaging information > gives up in terms of helping any QA process. Care to explain your > thoughts on this? > > Debian uses popcon for a specific reason...to help in ordering the > packages on their install media sets. I'm not sure we are interested > in that sort of help...Debian releases are a vastly different > timescale than ours. We aren't going to adapt the media contents based > on popcon every 6 months.. I don't see us making a commitment to use > the data in the same way Debian uses it..so I'm left scratching my > head on how we will use it at all. > > Before I would be personally willing to commit time on seeing this > implemented I would need to know what the perceived value is. I love > datamining...but I'm not a big fan of collecting data without first > having a stated reason for the collection of that information. If we > are going to collect it I expect it to be used and I expect the > initial use to be stated before we start collecting it. - Superb information for us packagers if and how much (of course not the correct value) users use the software i package - Helps to decide if a package can be easily removed from Fedora (upstream dead, no users left, good bye is no problem) At least two points, so rock on and implement it please :) -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
