Metrics: RFC

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:50:06AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
> >Mike McGrath wrote:
> >o Rough guess of total number of installs
> >o Total number of server machines
> >o Total number of desktop machines
> 
> Its impossible to get server vs desktop
> 
> >o Number of people who install, use, then never use again
> >o Total number of people who use on a daily/weekly/monthly basis
> >o What hardware people are using in the field.
> >
> 
> I think we'd all love to see a hardware profiler, its been on the
> infrastructure schedule since before I joined the team.  The problem
> is actually getting enough traction to get it developed and deployed.
> Is this something we could have ready for FC7 or should we come up
> with something very basic first and then release something more
> advanced for FC8?


We should poke the RHN folks; if you look in RHEL5 beta2 (public),
they've got something that exports lshal information to a
collection server backend.  Perhaps we can leverage that, it's GPL
after all.

-Matt