Omniture & Fedora

[Grant Shipley]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Max Spevack wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone who would like to know more about how our website tracking 
>>> infrastructure works please feel free to contact me. It suffices to 
>>> say that you will find it far superior to awstats having been a user 
>>> of awstats in the past.
>>
>> To be clear:
>>
>> I am not proposing that Fedora *stop* using awstats.  I love awstats.
>>
>> I am trying to open the door for Jesse to explain to the Fedora 
>> webmasters how we can make a few tweaks to enable Omniture, and why 
>> that would be useful to the larger body of Red Hat, and be a 
>> reasonably simple thing for Fedora to do.
>>
>> Jesse, could you give these folks some details?  I'm opening the door 
>> for you, but you've gotta step through it :)
>
> Not to be negative but Fedora has avoided using proprietary software 
> or services as much as possible and quite successfully. It is bad 
> enough that trend is not kept as much within Red Hat but why 
> proliferate it within Fedora too?
>
> Rahul
>
While I agree that tracking Fedora downloads and web site traffic is a 
great idea, I don't think Omniture is a good fit to do this.  Omniture 
is a great web site statistics and analytics tool but I agree with Rahul 
on this one -- It doesn't fit well with the mission of Fedora.

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grant