smolt stale profiles

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> Mike C wrote:
>> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath <at> redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>  
>>> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/delete?UUID=YOURUUID   Unfortunately 
>>> we can't use the hardware UUID of your system for privacy issues, so 
>>> whenever a fresh install happens, the old profile will remain.
>>>     
>>
>> Thanks Mike - that is what I was afraid you might say - if the 
>> majority of people
>> do not bother to remove old profiles after installing new versions of 
>> Fedora then
>> over a period more and more old, but no longer relevant, profiles will 
>> build up
>> and therefore the statistics will contain a smaller and smaller 
>> fraction of live machines in its database.  It is therefore important 
>> to remove such old
>> profiles in order to keep the statistics synced to real machines?
>>
>>   
> 
> We also track when the last checkin was.  Those enabling smolt's checkin 
> (which happens automatically when you install via anaconda and send your 
> profile) will keep a fresh profile.  This will allow us to say "only 
> select profiles that checked in in the last 8 months) which would ignore 
> older stale profiles.  Its the best we can do without causing privacy 
> issues.

Is a one way hardware hash really a big privacy concern? After all smolt 
is purely optional. One way hash would improve the accuracy of the stats 
nicely.

Rahul