On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:44 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > I think two somewhat different things have gotten conflated here. > I'm not sure I've completely followed all the threads of the > "GNOME-About" discussion, but it seems to have evolved from a discussion > of some sort of automated ping to a way to allow users to register > with GNOME.
It all started with trying to find a way to estimate the number of GNOME users. An automated ping is the best way, but is ethically dangerous. An opt-in register is ethically fine, but sub-optimal for our purposes. Also, we can do it right now, rather than later. Plus, it can establish a lower bound on the number of users, and seeing that number rise will (hopefully!) be inspirational. _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
