From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Request for download stats on release |
Date: | 2004-08-12 01:55:16 |
Message-ID: | 20040811225159.G62519@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> These download counts would be completely random anyway. Most people get
>> their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor.
>
> Sure, but the download counts just following a new release would give us
> a reading on enthusiastic real users --- ie, people who are interested
> enough to download a new major release as soon as it's available.
>
> However, this is probably moot given the point that we won't get
> cooperation from the larger mirror sites.
Why not add something like what pine does? when you start up a new
release of pine, the first time, there is an option to send an email
letting them count # of users ... its totally optional ...
Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it
prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email
letting us know its being used ... ?
Or something like that ... something both visible and that defaults to
'opt-out', not opt-in ...
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