[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[Rahul Sundaram]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> 
>> I hope you are understanding it correctly because that is how I 
>> understand it. I think this is the best idea I have heard so far.
> 
> There is a subset of users -- we don't know how large -- who will never 
> use yum because either (a) they won't have the bandwidth to use it, or (b) 
> they won't even understand that they need to use it.
> 
> I still think that the Firefox technique will give us a better 
> cross-section of data.
> 
> Let me think about it.  I need to send a note to the docs folks anyway -- 
> part apology, part analysis.  I'll cc: this group as well.
> 

I was particular that we dont lose out a important metric and related 
benefits because of the process being not ideal. I think with yum mirror 
list and yum-updatesd installed by default in Fedora Core 6 we get 
enough data non intrusively that we dont need to rush this up right now.

Rahul