Metrics and your privacy

[Jack Spaar]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:39:05 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:

> So we're looking for better ways to find out exactly who is out there
> and what Fedora is being used for.  I've been compiling thoughts and
> ideas on a metrics site.  Please take a look and comment.  What are you,
> the community, most comfortable with?  Where's the line where you'd
> check the check box to not participate?
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Metrics
> 
>            -Mike
>
>

"No uuids, please."

Unique identifier tracking is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.

Having read the RFC, you can probably meet the stated purpose (a general
measure of installed base, and release/architecture/package popularity)
least offensively by coordinating the existing mirror server logs.

That's the "two cents" I want to register, as long as you're asking for
wider feedback (and props to you for that, BTW).

--Jack Spaar