I'd say the opt in can be a check in the start-up wizard. You want to make sure enough people run it. Or even a intermediate page on the admin logins that would have to be disabled explicitly.
<rant target="not the idea for this tool!" size="little"> I do not believe in data collected by optional inquiries. Would kvm users have more incentive to participate then vmware users? Do noredist users have the liberty to participate or is it so that oss users have used their management credit for openness by the time they get to the tool? Only full coverage data is really useful. </rant> let's be extra careful in handling and interpreting the results, Daan On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I discussed this during CCCEU13 with David, Chip and Hugo and I promised I >> put it on the ml. >> >> My idea is to come up with a reporting tool which users can run daily which >> feeds us back information about how they are using CloudStack: >> >> * Hypervisors >> * Zone sizes >> * Cluster sizes >> * Primary Storage sizes and types >> * Same for Secondary Storage >> * Number of management servers >> * Version >> >> This would ofcourse be anonimized where we would send one file with JSON >> data back to our servers where we can proccess it to do statistics. >> >> The tool will obviously be open source and participating in this will be >> opt-in only. >> >> We currently don't know what's running out there, so that would be great to >> know. >> >> Some questions remain: >> * Who is going to maintain the data? >> * Who has access to the data? >> * How long do we keep it? >> * Do we do logging of IPs sending the data to us? >> >> I certainly do not want to spy on our users, so that's why it's opt-in and >> the tool should be part of the main repo, but I think that for us as a >> project it's very useful to know what our users are doing with CloudStack. >> >> Comments? >> > > +1 > >> Wido >
