On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 15:15 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 10:13 -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to come out of left field like this, but would the system profile
> > info we collect on install be useful in determining the weight of the
> > need for some of these drivers?  For example, if there is still a bunch
> > of SIS video adapters out there, we might prioritize support for that
> > driver, but then not for others that don't show-up in our hardware surveys.
> 
> We don't actually collect this information anymore, smolt has been put
> out of its misery.  Which is a shame, in a sense, but smolt never did
> work particularly well so I guess I don't mind.

There is active work going on on the Census project to replace it. I
hope that works out better. Detailed and easily queryable information on
graphics hardware usage patterns would be *extremely* useful QA and
blocker bug process purposes.
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