Draft: simple update description guidelines

[Paul Howarth]

Chris Weyl wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> wrote:
>>> [1] You know, it strikes me that it'd be interesting to see what % of
>>> our users actually run through the update list, rather than just see
>>> the little popup and clicking "update now".  Do we track this, and
>>> maybe we should collect some statistics on this before wasting any
>>> more time with this thread?
>> Simple answer... no we do not have a way to track it...as this the
>> notification text is part of the repository metadata on each mirror.
> [...snip...]
> 
> Hm.  Just off-the-cuff'ing here, but: could we rig the update applet
> to provide info that could be reported back via smolt?  All we'd
> really need to capture to settle this is the number of times a user
> clicked "Update system now" vs "Show updates -> Review", right? ...and
> better yet, if any packages were deselected.  A yum plugin could be
> used to report the number of times someone does a "yum update."
> 
> That would give us some solid data to work with here.

You'd struggle to find the number of people that read the update 
information by reading the emails sent to fedora-package-announce though 
- that's often what I look at to find out what's going to happen when I 
do a "yum update".

Paul.