On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:03 AM Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > On 10/4/18 3:07 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > At the root of this problem is the community's long resistance to > having > > > data reported back to the project data about the machines running > FreeBSD. > > > Absent any real and significant data, the only way to know if things > are > > > unused is to ask. We cannot have the act of merely asking cause people > to > > > freak out and hurl expletives all over the place. That's significantly > not > > > cool. > > > > First off, I absolutely don't want to flame: I'm glad you asked and I > > was happy to answer. > > > > Just out of curiosity, don't we have sysutils/bsdstats (which I install > > on all the boxes I manage, but I understand won't be present in most > > embedded systems)? > > Is that project such a failure? > > If so, should it be better promoted or would it be pointless? > > In theory it would provide valuable data, but in practice the website is > broken and unable to produce device data. I've asked multiple times for > it to be fixed. It would be great if it worked and we could use it. > There's also a few problems with using the data that's there for what we want to do with it. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
