What is success for Fedora?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 3 July 2014 02:16, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:

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> > From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com>
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> > We will hopefully be better able to measure usage of
> > workstation/server/cloud/everything better in the next release if each
> > release will give some indication to yum or dnf that the person is
> updating
> > from that 'platform'.
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> Well I don't think we will ever find a perfect and 100% accurate measure,
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I agree on that. I would prefer that we have some things that can be
'certainty'



> so what we would need to do instead is pick a set of indicators to watch
> like a combination of overall tracked Fedora product downloads during a
> release series,
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For your future reference,  product downloads is a bad indicator. Most of
our downloads are via mirrors which we can't track. The main download
server is usually 60-80% mirrors, 5-15% development downloads for various
machs and kojis out there.. and I am guessing the rest is direct downloads
but it is hard to say. The only thing we can track is yum updates as they
pull various meta-data from the proxies.. Even then it is noisy and you
have to choose which filters to use to possibly clean out noise.



> pick a few conferences to poll the attendees about operating system usage
> (JBoss
> and OpenStack conferences could possibly be good choices while GUADEC,
> Akademy
> or Flock would likely be bad choices :)) and Google trends for example. So
> none
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Get this done by a third party and you should be golden. Doing
pools/surveys with your own people brings in so many biases and problems
that the data isn't worth the time it took to get. [Sorry too much
psychology training on this..]



> of them would give us a 100% accurate answer, but combined we should be
> able to
> at least detect trends from them.
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> Of course the exact indicator composition would wary a bit between the 3
> products.
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> Christian
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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