[Popcon-developers] Bug#418891: The number of etch installations is rocketing...
- Subject: [Popcon-developers] Bug#418891: The number of etch installations is rocketing...
- From: liw@liw.iki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
- Date: Thu Apr 12 15:33:04 2007
- Message-id: <[🔎] 1176390364.5359.59.camel@dorfl.liw.iki.fi>
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Package: popularity-contest
Severity: wishlist
On to, 2007-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Lars Wirzenius]
> > However, changing the popcon debconf question to something like the
> > following might be an acceptable compromise:
> >
> > Would you like to participate in the Debian package popularity
> > contest meter? Blah blah blah. You may also choose to only
> > report once that you have installed this release of Debian on a
> > new machine. In that case no other information from you or your
> > machine gets recorded.
> >
> > [ ] No, I do not want to participate at all.
> > [ ] I want to report once that I have installed Debian.
> > [ ] I want to participate in the package popularity contest.
>
> Interesting idea. Perhaps it deserve a wishlist request in BTS?
>
> > The new choice would then do something like generate a UUID for the
> > machine and do a single HTTP query to report it and the contents of
> > /etc/debian_version.
>
> Actually, I've considered adding hardware reporting to popcon, using a
> separate question (or more options, not sure which), and hardware
> reports do not need to be sent as often as package usage. Such
> report-once setting should report the output of lsmod, lspci,
> dmidecode, lsusb etc, to allow us to know what hardware is in use out
> there.
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