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]> wrote: > Michael Widenius <[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. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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