[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:16 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 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.
> 
> There are only two ways that I know of to track unique visitors.  1. 
> Cookies or 2. Explicit registration (or registration behind the scenes.)
> 
> I suspect you're thinking of unique IPs (as greg mentions in other 
> email?)  Or do pup + friends track using cookies?

Then you're correct, we're not tracking anything besides unique ips. 

-sv