Again, if someone with DNS access would redirect smolt.contribs.org to smolt.swerts-knudsen.dk (using a CNAME), then I would start gathering data and give us all an overview of the amount of installations out there.
Smolt should also give us an overview of the various version users are running. Does that not make sense? Best, Jesper From: Jesper Knudsen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 4. marts 2013 23:18 To: '[email protected]' Subject: Future of SME - CentOS 6 why? Dear All, I was just recently pinged and asked whether I was ready to contribute on getting SME 9x out of the door and that made a lot of thoughts spawn off. Maybe it's just me, but why are we trying to take another step upwards and spending all the energy in migrating to CentOS 6 with very little benefits to the users? What is it in the CentOS 6 base that is critically lacking in the CentOS5 (which is not planned for discontinuation)? I my humble opinion SME 8x has an OK MySQL and PHP level that allows for many 3rd party packages and the added HW that CentOS 6 supports is, in my opinion, not critical for the SME users generally running on rather old HW. Why are we not spending the resources on integrating the most commonly used contribs and improving the current platform - giving real benefit to the user? Firstly I think that we need to understand whether the distribution is actually dead already (I think not but..) and I therefore suggest we revive smolt for that purpose alone. The pure number of active server out there might motive all to move forward. In theory I would enhance the smolt report with more relevant data to figure out more about the use of SME out there. Actually I would suggest we make a special SME Smolt that also collects information (100% anonymous) about: - Amount of users - Amount of Domains - installed contribs - properly more... We might need to build a web service for this, but that is quite easy. I did that a while back (SME 6x) collected data on that spam statistics packages. I would be happy to build this if its gets released generally. http://central.swerts-knudsen.dk/ - I just started to collector service after 3 years of stand-still - data still coming in. With this at hand we can motivate developers to continue their efforts and target our development towards the right needs. Additionally I would suggest that we think of means for the serious contributors to monetize on their SME work (and motivate them to keep the base bugfree)- maybe some kind of SME AppStore where a cut of each transaction goes back to contribs.org? Thought? Best regards, Jesper Knudsen (aka Knuddi)
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