As long as its limited to beta and alpha releases i dont think its that
bad to enable it by default as users using these versions should already
be aware of their not production-ready state.
As it seems to be simple to enable/disable the plugin with the
"feedback" variable, it shouldnt be a problem to deactivate it if the
server is upgraded to a GA release.
I cant say about the real interest of the harvested informations but it
could be of interest to see if a significant number of users are trying
to install these versions on exotic architectures/OSes or with a very
high cpu count for example.
Collecting the libc version (when applicable) could also be interresting
i think.
Le 09/03/2015 21:47, Adam Scott a écrit :
Maybe make it an option when installing?
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Justin Swanhart <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I agree with Kristian. Given the way it works, the statistics are
really meaningless and I feel you shouldn't drive important
choices based on bad statistics. I personally would suggest
displaying a link to a feedback/survey form with web downloads and
display a message after rpm/deb installation that says something
like "please visit http://blah/blah/blah/survey to tell us more
about the features you use and help direct the future development
of MariaDB". This has an added bonus: not all users know about
all features, and a list/survey of the important and interesting
ones could get more users to use them.
Just my $.02
--Justin
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Kristian Nielsen
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Michael Widenius <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> for the alpha so I suggested Sergei today that we should
enable it for
> the beta period of MariaDB 10.0
(10.*1* beta, I guess?)
> As most MariaDB users should know, the feedback is totally
anonymous
> and no private or sensitive information is being sent.
>
> Any comments, suggestions or recommendations?
I think it is a bad idea. Please do not do it.
"Phone-home" is a misfeature in any product, and even more so
in system
software like a database.
And besides, the information is much less useful than you
think, because of
unknown, but probably extreme, data skew. In fact, it will
probably be more
harmful than useful because people will use bad data to
justify bad
decisions.
Experience supports this point of view with our download
numbers. They do not
include apt-get / yum / etc. installations, which judging from IRC
conversations are the majority. Yet people continuely refer to
them as though
they mean anything, just because they are there.
- Kristian.
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