On 2020-08-10 22:37:27 +0200 (+0200), timbell wrote:
Ceph has done something like this with good results - https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/mgr/telemetry/
I think the things that have helped this to be successful are
- easy way to see what you would send - option (not the default) to provide more details such as company and contact [...]
Other prior art which springs to mind: Debian has provided a popcon tool for ages, as an opt-in means of periodically providing feedback on what packages are seeing use in their distro. It's current incarnation can submit reports via SMTP or HTTP protocols for added flexibility. https://popcon.debian.org/ OpenBSD takes a low-effort approach and suggests a command in their install guide which the admin can run to send a copy of dmesg output to the project so they can keep track of what sorts of hardware is running their operating system out in the wild. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg -- Jeremy Stanley