[RFC] obtaining and using field samples of XO system images

[Martin Dengler]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:00:35PM -0300, Erik Garrison wrote:
> -= Question =-
> 
> How are we planning on obtaining simple information such as [1]
> which activities are most used/downloaded, [2] which ones generate
> the most data, [3] common software failures, [4] bug manifestation
> rate etc.?
> 
> -= Proposal =-
> 
> The diagnostic process could be as simple from the country's perspective
> as: 
> 
>   1) dropping a USB key containing the system-copier script into the
>      machine in question booting, and waiting for shutdown, 
> 
>   2) then inserting the system-copier key (now containing an image of the
>      target system) into an XO running an XS build with a diagnostic
>      script attached, 
> 
>   3) which produces a report and automatically sends it to a server on
>      our end for further analysis.
[...]
> Thoughts?

How about:

1) Teaching the Sugar Control Panel System updater how to patch Sugar (Glucose)

2) Patching Sugar (Glucose) to collect/maintain [1] and [2] - this
feels like a very minor amount of data that are very useful

3) Developing any number of ways to get those data home to 1cc (new XO
activity, XS script, USB stick with a collector script that copied the
collected data to itself and then was used as in your step #2).

I seem to remember a discussion about automatically sending somethign
back to 1cc, but I think it was just "before my time".  Any pointers
to that discussion welcome (so as not to needlessly repeat it...).

> Best,
> Erik

Martin
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