On 11/26/2013 10:42 PM, Steve Wilson wrote:
I built something like this for products at Sun Microsystems. We embedded
into nearly everything we built:
The Java Runtime Environment
Open Office
Solaris
MySQL
Even things like Server LOMs
(the list goes on)
By default, when each of these products installed/first run, it would try
to bring the user into the program. It was always possible to opt out,
but we really worked to get people to not opt out. We got shockingly HUGE
piles of data (literally from millions of installed product instances).
We didn't get any complaints (EVER) in the years we ran this program. It
was hugely useful to the product teams.
I wouldn't go for opt-out by default. We might ask the question during
the initial management server installation, but it shouldn't be opt-out
and not informing the user.
BTW, we didn't even make this data anonymous. You could obviously choose
to be anonymous, but if people want to give their names/companies then why
not let them? You'd be surprised how many people wouldn't mind.
I wouldn't want a database with all that information in there. I'm also
aiming for usage about CloudStack, not who uses it.
We might make something where you can "claim" your data, but I'd
anonimize it anyway.
Wido
-Steve
On 11/26/13 12:49 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com>
wrote:
+1.
Of course we must ensure proper treatment of this data (anonymization,
retention, removal, copyrights)
On 11/23/13 11:01 AM, "Wido den Hollander" <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
Hi,
I discussed this during CCCEU13 with David, Chip and Hugo and I promised
I put it on the ml.
My idea is to come up with a reporting tool which users can run daily
which feeds us back information about how they are using CloudStack:
* Hypervisors
* Zone sizes
* Cluster sizes
* Primary Storage sizes and types
* Same for Secondary Storage
* Number of management servers
* Version
This would ofcourse be anonimized where we would send one file with JSON
data back to our servers where we can proccess it to do statistics.
The tool will obviously be open source and participating in this will be
opt-in only.
We currently don't know what's running out there, so that would be great
to know.
Some questions remain:
* Who is going to maintain the data?
* Who has access to the data?
* How long do we keep it?
* Do we do logging of IPs sending the data to us?
I certainly do not want to spy on our users, so that's why it's opt-in
and the tool should be part of the main repo, but I think that for us as
a project it's very useful to know what our users are doing with
CloudStack.
Comments?
Wido
