[fab] Metrics: What we *could* get

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:06 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> There's another interesting aspect of having something on the machine 
> that allows someone to be counted.  It follows the software all the way 
> from where we put it up, through the mirrors and down to the 
> installation.  It's much more reliable about reporting something in that 
> sense, rather than collecting stats from mirrors and download sites.
> 
> It also reports the act - "I'm using it" instead of "I downloaded it."
> 
> And last, in some ways it's a lot less nefarious than tracking 
> downloads.  It's a result of a positive act on part of the user, as 
> opposed to tracking on the backend without any kind of positive assent 
> from the user.
> 

as long as it is not brought in as an automatic dependency, I agree.

-sv