+1 for an opt-in approach. To get better opt-in rates perhaps prompt for it on start (once) rather than hope folks find it buried in the yaml
Eric Evans <eev...@acunu.com> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I started a "users survey" thread over on the users list (replies are >> still trickling in), but as useful as that is, I'd like to get >> feedback that is more quantitative and with a broader base. This will >> let us prioritize our development efforts to better address what >> people are actually using it for, with less guesswork. For instance: >> we put a lot of effort into compression for 1.0.0; if it turned out >> that only 1% of 1.0.x users actually enable compression, then it means >> that we should spend less effort fine-tuning that moving forward, and >> use the energy elsewhere. >> >> (Of course it could also mean that we did a terrible job getting the >> word out about new features and explaining how to use them, but either >> way, it would be good to know!) >> >> I propose adding a basic cluster reporting feature to cassandra.yaml, >> enabled by default. It would send anonymous information about your >> cluster to an apache.org VM. Information like, number (but not names) >> of keyspaces and columnfamilies, ks-level options like compression, cf >> options like compaction strategy, data types (again, not names) of >> columns, average row size (or better: the histogram data), and average >> sstables per read. >> >> Thoughts? > >I think this is potentially quite dangerous; There are a lot people >who get very twitchy at the idea of software that Phones Home. I've >seen this so many times, and in all cases it was for software a lot >less sensitive than a database. > >I'm sure you've already considered this though, you're already talking >about anonymity, and transparency, and what I assume is neutrality of >the collection endpoint (can apache actually provide a VM; is that a >thing?). I'm just afraid that we'll scare people off before they can >be properly convinced that it's all on the up-and-up. > >I'm curious to see what others think, but at the moment I'm hovering >somewhere around a -0 if it were opt-in (off by default). > >-- >Eric Evans >Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu
