On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:06:49PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Last night, as I was launching Stellaris, I got the rare but
occasional
Steam Hardware Survey popup. I'm always happy when I do, because I get to
represent gaming on Fedora platforms. ("I'm helping!")
Then, this morning, there's the discussion of btrfs compression options, for
which it would obviously be useful for us to know the typical Fedora
Workstation user's hard drive and CPU characteristics.
I know some of us have been thinking about implementing a system-info
metrics tool similar to what Endless presented at last GUADEC, or what
Canonical does for Ubuntu. I'm not ruling those out, but what if we had
something (a shell extension? something else?) that would unobtrusively
offer a survey, with a chance of happening on a given system maybe twice a
year?
Yes, please!
Some people are justifiably worried about privacy, so any solution
like this should be opt-in. But I think we would be able to make our Fedora
more useful by knowing what type of systems we are really targeting.
A similar consideration applies to package profiles: I would love to
see the equivalent of Debian's popcon implemented in Fedora. Opt-in.
It'd guide the work of packagers so that they'd know which packages are
actually worth spending time on.
Zbyszek