[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:39 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>> hey guys,
>>>>  The goal of this tracker is to determine how many folks we have
>>>> installing fedora, right?
>>>>
>>>> If we can assume that it is likely that a user will be using
>>>> yum/pirut/puplet in a default install then we should be able to gather
>>>> the information on how many folks are using it (hence installing fedora)
>>>> from the mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrorlist generating program. It'll
>>>> track hits against it and we can then mine those logs for the number of
>>>> users w/o obtaining much other information than 'they used
>>>> yum/pirut/puplet'.
>>>>
>>>> It also requires nothing of us other than putting a log watcher on
>>>> fedoraproject.org.
>>>
>>> Does that track unique users or just hits?  Hits isn't that interesting. 
>>>   Unique visitors is.
>> it's just a url running under apache. It tracks what apache tracks
>> whenever someone hits a page. So, yes, definitely tracking unique
>> visitors.
> 
> I'm perfectly happy to have a good answer that isn't as politically 
> charged as putting an image on a web page -- so long as it gets us 
> comparably useful data.
> 
> So let's be clear about what the two scenarios would count:
> 
> In the Firefox homepage scenario, we would count every unique IP for 
> everyone who opens a browser window while connected.
> 
> In the Yum mirror tracker scenario, we would count every unique IP for 
> everyone who ever runs yum and talks to any repo.
> 
> Do I understand correctly?
> 
> --g
> 
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I hope you are understanding it correctly because that is how I 
understand it. I think this is the best idea I have heard so far.

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