Andy Powell Wrote: > I'd like to give this one 10 thumbs down. IMHO a bad idea, a nasty little > bad idea.. evil, spawn of Satan. If this were implemented the first job of > a new update would be to rip it out and flush it down the nearest toilet. >
Just curious, but why does it strike you as such a bad idea? Especially if it was disabled by default. I can understand you not wanting your system security or your personal privacy compromised, but I think it would be great to have it in place for: A) Manual activation for those who want automated updates. B) CLI execution for occasional comparison to the current set. Perhaps it should be possible to flag the request with a token indicating that you don't want to be part of the "survey", and you don't want your IP/host information stored. A --anon option, if you will. > I can only wait until we see M$ like activation implemented... oh the > joy... I am going to guess that you're joking. I just don't see that happening. Mark and the team at Digium seem dedicated to open source and to the Asterisk community. His asking for comments on this idea is a pretty good indicator of his concern for the community's opinions. > It would be much better just to have the information present on either the > Digium site or some other location. I see little point in wasting your > valuable time doing something like this when there are so many outstanding > issues and feature requests that could offer more. Perhaps Mark's time could be spent on other things, but I would still like to see Digium offer this option -- perhaps one of the other developers could head up the effort? Just putting the current version information up on a web page is nice, but it doesn't allow me to automatically query the system and discover known issues and possible solutions. I think that, for service providers that could very well be a critical next step. Several of my clients made the decision to go with RedHat based on their update service (for which they gladly paid). I would like to see the idea implemented, but I would like to see the above security considerations implemented (manual activation, a CLI option, and an anonymous option). I would also like to see the service extended into all of the Applications, Resources, Codecs, Formats, and other major components of Asterisk. It would be great to know when changes to both the core Asterisk engine and the associated modules are made, what the changes are, and also when new applications/resources/codecs, etc. are added to the CVS. Thoughts? Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
