A humble suggestion for Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/28/06, John Bowden <johnbowden43 at gawab.com> wrote:
>
> Arthur Pemberton writes:
>
> > On 10/27/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be nice if the Fedora installation
> >> asked for some feedback ...?
> >>
> >> Eg, "Did you find installation easy (on a scale of 1 to 5)",
> >> "What problems (if any) did you have: None, Reading CDs, ...",
> >> "Do you any suggestions for improvement".
> >>
> >
> > Why be so Windows like about it?
> >
> > My suggestion: Have one of the Python + Curses/GTK guys do up an app
> > that takes the questiongs and POSTs them to a website of choice.
> >
> > Put in multiple levevls of questions: ie. someone a press for time can
> > just do a first level of simple, general questions. Someone like
> > myself willing to take some time to contribute, can go all the way to
> > level X, level X having deeper, more technical questions. Have the
> > Fedora Market,Legal, and Dev. teams choose the questions.
> >
> > And then just give the app a meaningful name, and drop it promintely
> > on the desktop, so the user can do it if/when they want, and console
> > only users can do the curses screen. And perhaps ask the use if they
> > would like the questionnaire to remove itself from the system once the
> > questionairre has been completed. Also, use the default fedora html
> > pages to point out the existence of the questionnaire.
> >
> > That's it:nothing mandatory, no data collection behind the scenes,
> > nothing that makes you feel like you may have added your name to the
> > death squads list of the damned.
> >
> > If I didn't already have one incomplete Fedora project to finish I
> > would do this myself.
> >
> > Peace.
> >
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> I second this idea. The app wouldn’t take up much space.
> can be run after any ( rare ) problems with connecting to the
> net had hopefully been solved, at my own convenience, at a
> technical knowledge level suited to my knowledge level,
> Automatically getting a list of hardware / software installed.

Well maybe not _too_ automatically. But yes.
>
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You sig also reminds of the needs for metrics of FC installtions, such
an app would help.

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