[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Oct 6 13:42:02 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:35 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On 10/4/06, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Just pointing out that about half of the machines I install FC on
> > don't have X installed, much less firefox.
>
> That's a good reason to put a tool in that does register new servers.
> Well, maybe register is the wrong word. That implies a lot of things to
> me. But certainly "get counted." Which is different than "track."
>
> I guess it's good to talk about the metrics we're interested in. That
> will drive how we build something:
>
> 1. Tracking unique desktop users. Also, how long do they use it for?
> On the weekends? On weekdays? Do they stop after a number of days of
> use? One day never to return? These are very useful statistics in
> realizing what kind of job we're doing.
>
that's more invasive than I think we should be.
we can count the total number of connections and we can count the
connections to which distro and on which days.
But we SHOULD NOT track a given ip to figure out what they're doing
and/or when.
That's inappropriate and I will resist it.
-sv
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