I think its critical. It's difficult for me to pitch CloudStack as a solution if I have no stats to show what's possible or how much of a userbase it has. It would have been nice to have that yesterday. I think in the past year things have gone backward in this regard, as there used to at least be a list of contributing vendors somewhere that I can no longer find. I wonder perhaps if that's due in part to migration to the ASF. I think it will be hard to stay relevant if it's difficult for the average IT person to get a sense of how active the community is by visiting the site.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > Cool idea, we can also have a monkey-brag ACS plugin which gives users an > API which can be triggered via cloudmonkey cli tool or by some gui/button > on the frontend to submit stats anonymously to our servers. > > Cheers. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > >> On 03/18/2014 12:07 PM, Marcus wrote: >> >>> Do we have any general stats on how cloudstack is being used? Common >>> deployment sizes, largest deployments, etc? I'm curious as to how far >>> people have actually scaled it in real deployments, although I realize >>> that >>> the info can be proprietary. >>> >>> >> Recently at the Ceph project the tool "ceph-brag" was developed. It >> gathers information about your Ceph deployment and sends back the >> information to the project. >> >> Something like this might be nice (opt-in!!) for CloudStack. It can >> anonymously report things like: >> - Number of Instances >> - Number of pods, cluster, hosts >> - Number of Primary Storage and their type >> - Basic / Advanced Networking >> >> This could all be written into one JSON file which we can submit back to >> the project. >> >> With this we would get more information about how CloudStack is used. >> >> Obviously, the code will be Open Source so people can see how we gather >> the information (probably a lot of SQL selects..) and how we submit it to >> our servers. >> >> Is that something what you would like? >> >> Wido >>
