Having worked at places where you get fired if software *attempts* to contact outside world I understand the concerns.
However, if it's opt-in via config file and requires a restart then there is no reason why it should be a concern. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Zhu Han <schumi....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Norman Maurer <nor...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 2011/11/16 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>: > > > 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? > > > > -1. > > It may scare some admins who stores sensitive data in cassandra. Even if > it can > disabled, we can not sleep well in the night when we know the door can be > opened unintentionally... > > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm not a cassandra dev but an user of it. I would really "hate" to > > see such code in the cassandra code-base. I understand that it would > > be kind of useful to get a better feeling about usage etc, but its > > really something that scares the shit out of many managers (and even > > devs ;) ). > > > > So -1 to add this code (*non-binding) > > > > Bye, > > Norman > > > -- http://twitter.com/tjake
