Re: Request for download stats on release

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> These download counts would be completely random anyway.  Most people get
>> their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor.
>
> Sure, but the download counts just following a new release would give us
> a reading on enthusiastic real users --- ie, people who are interested
> enough to download a new major release as soon as it's available.
>
> However, this is probably moot given the point that we won't get
> cooperation from the larger mirror sites.

Why not add something like what pine does?  when you start up a new
release of pine, the first time, there is an option to send an email
letting them count # of users ... its totally optional ...

Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it
prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email
letting us know its being used ... ?

Or something like that ... something both visible and that defaults to
'opt-out', not opt-in ...

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