[oi-dev] Moving on with postgresql

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Reg

Unfortunately it does not. It never got that feature added.

It is a point for possible feature to add, but as many people are still 
running old versions of the client, it will take quite a long time for 
the statistics to get traction.

-Till

On 17.04.21 20:15, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev wrote:
> Does the repository server collect information about installs? It seems 
> to me it should and package and version support decisions based on that 
> information. Without that information there is great potential to waste 
> resources doing work which will never be used.
> 
> In the early 90's I was a big advocate for buying binary FOSS packages 
> as compiling them for multiple platforms was not cheap unless it was 
> done during idle time while waiting for another job to complete. I 
> routinely did this on other systems while waiting for a compile and test 
> to complete on the platforms we supported for our package.
> 
> As a practical matter, distribution of builds of FOSS was out of scope. 
> I just did the 6 platforms which used our NFS server for our convenience 
> and efficiency. No one asked me to do it. I just did it and everyone was 
> very pleased that I did.
> 
> In order to better manage resource allocation of 3 people, I implemented 
> a usage logger which collected usage data via UDP from all the business 
> affiliates in a major oil company for the package we supported. Once a 
> month I generated plots showing program usage by affiliate and 
> cumulative usage worldwide. That allowed management to allocate 
> resources to programs in widespread use and ignore programs only used by 
> the scientist who wrote it. One individual was *very* noisy. It was 
> extremely useful to be able to show he was the sole user and had run the 
> program 1 or 2 times in the last year. As he had written it, he was 
> quite capable of adding the "important" features himself.
> 
> I do not suggest collecting per use data, but per install data seems 
> entirely sensible.
> 
> Reg
> 
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