Re: Collecting information

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:27:30PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
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> > Fedora needs a mechanism to collect user and hardware information with a 
> > opt-in mechanism. Similar lines of discussions here
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-July/msg00042.html
> > What do you think is the best way to do this?
> >    
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> Not sure about how to do it, but it'd be nice if it also included package
> installation/use info a la the Debian Popularity Contest
> <http://popcon.debian.org/>.
>
>
>  
Ok so the following tasks then

* A tool to collect package stats
* A tool to collect hardware information
* A form to fill out for users to send in more information to the 
project with appropriate "incentives" to do it

regards
Rahul