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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 963 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/attachments/20200810/1d941ee8/attachment.sig>