On 01/12/14 13:10, Alec Leamas wrote: >> So we come back to the question: is any number better than no number >> at all? >> Even to get a trend? >> > Yes, I think so. Even a bad number can be used for trends and comparisons. > > That said, let's not limit this discussion to the "download counter" > concept. There are other approaches, perhaps some kind of reporting app > which send reports on installed sw to a central server, like the abrt > thing. Or something else, which I cannot imagine. In the old days, we used to have a service like smolt, to collect hardware data. The installer asked for participation in this service after install. IMHO that was a service, reporting every month or so. Debian has popcon[1], to collect statistics. One could even argue: when fedora already knows, what I have installed, it may be nice to get a reminder to update packages, when there is a known security issue. Of course, that needs to be opt-in, but it may be a nice service. Matthias [1] http://popcon.debian.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
