On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:25:58AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Ricky Zhou <ricky.zhou@gmail.com> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Ricky Zhou <ricky.zhou@gmail.com> > > > > * Package name : smolt > > Version : 0.9.8.3 > > Upstream Author : Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@redhat.com> > > * URL : https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/ > > * License : GPL > > Programming Lang: Python > > Description : Fedora hardware profiler > > > > The Fedora hardware profiler is a server-client system that does a > > hardware scan against a machine and sends the results to a public Fedora > > Project turbogears server. The sends are anonymous and should not > > contain any private information other than the physical hardware > > information and basic OS info. > What is the added value for Debian users of sending these informations > *to Fedora* ? Modifying the package so it sends the data to a Debian server running the same/similar software to Fedora's sounds reasonable though. Not completely sure that there's much benefit to maintaining separate servers for Debian data and Fedora data -- but *reporting* the data separate would probably be a good thing if the proportion of Fedora users with smolt is significantly different to the proportion of Debian users with smolt. (That's because making a mistake on that score would be both easy if the data were combined, and lead to wrong comparisons between total Debian and Fedora users, to the detriment of whoever has the lower proportion of users running smolt, which would presumably be Debian) Integrating it with pop-con (or vice-versa) would be interesting. Cheers, aj
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