thoughts on LWN "how many Fedora users are there"

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/18/06, James Wilkinson <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Why not go the more traditional, and transparent route? A registration
> > page/app.
> >
> > Have a Python app (both CLI and GUI) and have it run as part of first
> > boot, and have it always available. Have it generate an extremely
> > random number (on the other of 16^32). Then give the user the option
> > to register with Fedora, distrowatch, Linux User Counter, or any
> > combination, or just dismiss it totally.
> >
> > What is the flaw in that stradegy?
> >
> > I'm all for getting metrics, but why such a complicated solution?
>
> I think that's the plan for FC7. The Powers That Be wanted something
> simple for FC6 well after feature freeze and with only a week or so
> until planned release.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
>

Okay, well the requirement of something that works post feature freeze
makes sense I suppose. How about putting a link on the default Fedora
page to ask to register?

Just the what seems to be the suggested method doesn't seem _that_ simple.

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