Collecting information
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Jul 7 15:31:30 UTC 2005
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>On 7/5/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>>* 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
>>
>>
>
>I'd rather know why we..as fedora..are collecting any of this
>information before we collect it.
>I want to see concrete plans on how this information is going to be
>used before we start collecting. Who is going to datamine that
>package stats information and for what constructive purpose? Who is
>going to datamine that hardware information and for what constructive
>purpose? Who is going to datamine geographic and other userdata and
>for what constructive purpose?
>
>I am very much not inclined to building a treasure trove of data...
>just to have it around because people are somewhat interested in
>knowing things about the userbase. If there are no concrete plans to
>use the data as it comes in, I think having a mountain of data its
>only going to prove to be a burden.
>
>
Marketing: Where do we stand in terms of number of users and what kind
of users Fedora is attracting
Development : What type of hardware works, Whats packages is being
utilised more?. What can be moved into extras?
regards
Rahul
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