smolt stale profiles

[Mike McGrath]

Mike C wrote:
> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>   
>> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/delete?UUID=YOURUUID   Unfortunately we 
>> can't use the hardware UUID of your system for privacy issues, so 
>> whenever a fresh install happens, the old profile will remain.
>>     
>
> Thanks Mike - that is what I was afraid you might say - if the majority of people
> do not bother to remove old profiles after installing new versions of Fedora then
> over a period more and more old, but no longer relevant, profiles will build up
> and therefore the statistics will contain a smaller and smaller fraction of 
> live machines in its database.  It is therefore important to remove such old
> profiles in order to keep the statistics synced to real machines?
>
>   

We also track when the last checkin was.  Those enabling smolt's checkin 
(which happens automatically when you install via anaconda and send your 
profile) will keep a fresh profile.  This will allow us to say "only 
select profiles that checked in in the last 8 months) which would ignore 
older stale profiles.  Its the best we can do without causing privacy 
issues.

    -Mike