[fab] Metrics: What we *could* get

[Christopher Blizzard]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:06 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> There's another interesting aspect of having something on the machine 
>> that allows someone to be counted.  It follows the software all the way 
>> from where we put it up, through the mirrors and down to the 
>> installation.  It's much more reliable about reporting something in that 
>> sense, rather than collecting stats from mirrors and download sites.
>>
>> It also reports the act - "I'm using it" instead of "I downloaded it."
>>
>> And last, in some ways it's a lot less nefarious than tracking 
>> downloads.  It's a result of a positive act on part of the user, as 
>> opposed to tracking on the backend without any kind of positive assent 
>> from the user.
>>
> 
> as long as it is not brought in as an automatic dependency, I agree.
> 

Might be as simple as the home page for the browser.  Or part of firstboot.

--Chris