It tells you how much a sample used and you don't know what fraction of the total that represents, or if their usage is representative of the larger base. I maintain they are not meaningful but you can feel free to disagree.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 10, 2015, at 7:42 PM, Michael Widenius <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi! > > <cut> > >> 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. > > From a statistics point of view, the automatic feedback will tell us a > lot about how people use MariaDB and is far from meaningless! > (We only need a small statistical sample to know how the majority is > using the server). > > The most important things for our developers, that the phone home > feature will tell us, are probably: > - Features that are used (and how much they are used) > - Features that not used. > - Combinations of features used. > - The stability of the servers. > - How often upgrades are done > > This will allow us to better concentrate the few development resources > on features that are important to our users. > > In the past, our main problem for allocating resources has always been > "does anyone really use or care about this". Now we finally will get > some information to make these kind of decisions easier. > > Regards, > Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
