[fab] Re: splash page + tracking image example

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/5/06, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Max Spevack wrote:
> Is wrong data really any better than no data? We already have wrong data
> ("somewhere between 10 thousand and 10 million, we think") if that's all
> you're wanting. And we know the proposed counting method (ip-based web
> hit) will be wrong data as well....
>
> later,
> chris

Its about interpretation.  While individual IP's != individual users,
it is the closet thing we can come with short notice and without a
call-home feature. One thing we could do is generate a key for each
user and append it to the end of the users URI to which yum connects.
Some might consider that evil though.  Even still, unique IP's will
get us additional information about geographic location, times users
connect, architecture's being run, etc.

Long term though it will be nice to see how many users continue to try
to use EOL'd releases.  For example when FC6 gets moved to legacy and
then removed all together, how many people are still trying to update
it.

If we're interested, defaulting to network based installs may aid in
this as well but is outside the scope of this discussion.

             -Mike