<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 02 February 2009, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:24 -0700, Brian Phillips wrote:<br>
> > My idea is this:<br>
> > 1) When myth is installed, the user is asked if they would like to opt-in to<br>
> > a "hardware survey".<br>
> > 2) After a specific time frame has passed (eg 100 hours recorded and/or<br>
> > watched), if the user has selected to opt-in to the program, the myth system<br>
> > will "phone home" to a database and provide a hardware listing.<br>
> <br>
> I've thought about this before. Programmers at hardware makers have told<br>
> me they could probably spend more time on Linux if they could show their<br>
> bosses some solid numbers for the number of folks using Linux with their<br>
> hardware. This would need to be broached with the other developers and<br>
> in here and I would need to find the time to actually write the code for<br>
> it. I'll follow this thread and see what people's opinions are.<br>
> <br>
> The important points from a user perspective is that it would be opt-in,<br>
> only aggregate data would be reported, and the callback server would be<br>
> under a server under *.mythtv.org, so it would ultimately be under<br>
> Isaac's control. PS I would get user approval immediately before a<br>
> "phone home", otherwise someone might forget that they opted in and<br>
> get needlessly upset.<br>
> <br>
> -- Daniel<br>
Perhaps something like http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/ would fit the bill?<br>
There is already a myth plugin that can submit smolt data. For the client the 3 main requirments are python,hal and dbus. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Setting up a smoon server is pretty straight forward, in fact there is one already setup collecting data for knoppmyth.<br>
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