User Profiles

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:14:50PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:16 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> > The client parts of this are not too hard; the Fedora Infrastructure
> > part is harder, last I talked with them about something like this they
> > had a lot of concerns about storage space, etc.  In the big picture
> > all of infrastructure at the moment is contributor-scale and not
> > user-scale, and that's a big leap even if we're saying the user is
> > likely to be a contributor.
> 
> If scale is a problem, could we, rather than tying this into first boot,
> have some kind of email-based invitation system where only maybe 250
> users get emails and are allowed to send data into the program?

Am I right in thinking we'd want to randomize these in some way to
ensure that we're not getting a selection of people that's too
insular, beyond the obvious selector of saying "sure, I'll
participate"?

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