F11 Proposal: Stabilization

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think what people really want is 'updates that fix the things that are
> already broken' but not 'updates that break something new'.  Can you come up
> with a way to 'crowdsource' this statistic?  Perhaps an optional poll where
> people could rate the health of their system and individual apps, preferably
> tied somehow to the smolt hardware reports so someone could see how the
> current updates run on hardware like their own or which update triggered a
> flurry of problems.  Or maybe this could be automated - but the absence of
> problem reports for an update could mean that no machines survived to send
> them...

Uhm.... in order to get "crowdsource" stats.. which will help you
prevent the releasing of updates to the crowd...there has to be a
crowd of people using the updates. How do yuou get feedback from the
crowd without exposing the crowd to the updates?

-jef