Metrics: RFC

[Christopher Blizzard]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> 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
> 
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Hmm, interesting.  I wonder who wrote that.

--Chris