Draft: simple update description guidelines

[Chris Weyl]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> wrote:
>> That would give us some solid data to work with here.
>
> You'd have to talk to the smolt developers about that. But my sense is
> that that is an abuse of smolt and it should be avoided. I don't think
> smolt was built nor advertised to track administrative actions.  I'm
> more than happy to analyze logs on mirror servers if admins agree to
> run scripts against the logs. I'll even write the scripts. I'm burning
> a few cycles now putting a framework in place for us to do more
> analysis with our mirrormanager logs.  But I'm really not keen on
> turning smolt into an advanced phonehome keylogger just so we can do
> marginally better trending. Doing that will hurt smolt's adoption as a
> hardware profiler.

Ah well.  Thanks :)

                                -Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia