Omniture & Fedora

Emma S. Battle ebattle at redhat.com
Fri Feb 29 12:43:51 UTC 2008


No problem...we are not trying to force a solution where it is not 
wanted.   As one of our brand principles states, we are all about 
"choice"....

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Grant Shipley wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone who would like to know more about how our website tracking 
>>>> infrastructure works please feel free to contact me. It suffices to 
>>>> say that you will find it far superior to awstats having been a 
>>>> user of awstats in the past.
>>>
>>> To be clear:
>>>
>>> I am not proposing that Fedora *stop* using awstats.  I love awstats.
>>>
>>> I am trying to open the door for Jesse to explain to the Fedora 
>>> webmasters how we can make a few tweaks to enable Omniture, and why 
>>> that would be useful to the larger body of Red Hat, and be a 
>>> reasonably simple thing for Fedora to do.
>>>
>>> Jesse, could you give these folks some details?  I'm opening the 
>>> door for you, but you've gotta step through it :)
>>
>> Not to be negative but Fedora has avoided using proprietary software 
>> or services as much as possible and quite successfully. It is bad 
>> enough that trend is not kept as much within Red Hat but why 
>> proliferate it within Fedora too?
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> While I agree that tracking Fedora downloads and web site traffic is a 
> great idea, I don't think Omniture is a good fit to do this.  Omniture 
> is a great web site statistics and analytics tool but I agree with 
> Rahul on this one -- It doesn't fit well with the mission of Fedora.
>
> -- 
> grant




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