Wouldnt a small popup like the advise of new updates be usefull for smoltGui ?<br><br>Something like:<br>- "New survey is available"<br>- you click in it, do the survey and send it with the profile, it would also be nice to have a checkbox to disable the announcements.
<br><br>Paulo<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike McGrath</b> <<a href="mailto:mmcgrath@redhat.com">mmcgrath@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Christopher Blizzard wrote:<br>> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:54 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:<br>><br>>> The problem with the smolt numbers is that anyone doing kickstarts,<br>>> installing via runlevel 3, yum upgrades or anaconda upgrades will
<br>>> never<br>>> get prompted to enable smolt and there are privacy concerns just<br>>> enabling it by default. So I think the only way we can do it is<br>>> start<br>>> to seed people now, get the word out about smolt, and start
<br>>> monitoring<br>>> upgrades from F7 to F8 and so on.<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> What happens in the case that the network stuff isn't up when smolt runs<br>> during startup? Did it end up being able to wait for the network and
<br>> queue it for later? I'm a little surprised that the number of units<br>> that we have is as small as it is, and how few of them are laptops. Or<br>> maybe it's just that our support for laptops is so bad that no one is
<br>> bothering anymore. :)<br>><br>It keeps trying as best as it can until network comes up. If all that<br>fails (say a reboot is required before network comes up) the monthly<br>smolt checkin will start up and we'll get them a month after they
<br>install. The monthly checkin will also let us do queries on 'active'<br>users say people that have submitted in the last 6 months or 12 months.<br><br>> Would be nice to move smolt out of just the firstboot and do some user
<br>> surveys as well, but I guess we haven't speced that out and haven't had<br>> time to do the work to make that happen.<br>><br><br>Well we do have smoltGui available and we're working on adding a rating
<br>system for the entire profile as well as individual devices. The<br>question is how to get people to run it.<br><br> -Mike<br><br> -Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list
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