2010/5/4 Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Thomas Janssen wrote: >> Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of >> FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a >> popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware. >> There's nothing at all that gets sent out of your box. >> >> Remind, i'm not speaking of exactly popcon. I spoke about something in >> the server, just counting the download/installation (not even unique >> installations via some hash or whatever) and a packagekit extension >> that shows the count or something like stars or whatever. >> >> So, it has to be on by default. > > I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but if you talked about download statistics > then that was far from obvious. I got the impression that you talked about the > same thing as "yersinia", and "yersinia" talked about Popcon. Yeah, my bad. I wasn't very clear, sorry. > So what would it mean for download statistics to be on or off by default? How > would a user override the default? Would there be an option in Yum that would > let the user choose whether their downloads should be counted? Would that > choice be communicated in every HTTP or FTP request? Very good question. The thing that has to be on by default is the server-side counting. The other part on or off by default would be the "plugin" for packagekit, to get this little stars or numbers (to make sense, on). And i think it wouldn't hurt to have it on by default (assuming there's a switch to turn it off). Of course we could tell the people that there's nothing to worry about (no spyware). That could be done in the release-notes. I'm sure some of the bigger portals will tell it the people anyways in their news when we release. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
