Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Statistics - (was: Bacula Status)

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On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:06:32 Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santos
>
> <lis...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Kern Sibbald <ke...@si...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Last week I visited Köln (Cologne in English I think) Germany where
> >> dassIT held an all day Bacula conference on the 23rd of September.  It
> >> was very nice to meet and discuss with a large group of Bacula users
> >> (something like 55-60 people).  Hopefully in the not so distant future
> >> we can organize more such Bacula conferences.
> >
> > WOL... I never thinks on a Bacula's Day !!!
> > Because I thought that we were a small and dispersed  community, but
> > apparently I'm wrong !!!
> > Yesterday Germany, today the world, tomorrow "the infinity, and beyond!"
>
> Hello masters,
>
> we have a actual statistic of bacula servers installed and running ??

No, and that is a bit frustrating, because it is the first question that 
enterprises ask when thinking of using Bacula.

>
> maybe you was commented this on past, but what are your opinion about
> include a code on bacula's services to send information about wich
> version is running ??

No, I haven't commented on this in the past.  It is problematic though.  I 
would like to respect user's privacy.

>
> on DRBD for example, all time that a new version is installed and
> executed, the program query if the admin want send the version number
> to developers for statistics.
>
> IMHO, this a good option.

Yes, it is worth thinking about.  However, if one judges by my own actions, I 
don't think I have ever agreed to send statistics back to anyone when I had 
the choice.  Of course, if you are using a Microsoft product, as a user, you 
have no choice.  They require you to register it.  If we were to do something 
it would be an opt-in, but unless we can offer some compelling reason, I 
think most people will not agree to send information.

Salut,

Kern