Hi. On Sep 09, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
So, "Phone Home" or "MySQL feedback daemon" or "better name wanted" feature.
my current working name is "MariaDB User Feedback", which isn't catchy at all :(
It is something that can be installed together with MariaDB, it will gather different statistic about how MariaDB is used and will send this information anonymously to mariadb.org.
My current thoughts about the server part. I'm thinking about an I_S plugin. It will create a table with all the information that is going to be sent. If we'll have sending code in the server - Monty wants it for some reason - then this plugin will send the content of the table. But one can also disable the sending and simply use I_S table as any other I_S table. Or one can send the data manually: mysql -e 'select * from i_s.feedback_table'|mail email@mariadb.org or the same with "wget --post-file" or "curl --data". From the cronjob, if desired. Which is not very Windows friendly, but the point is that technically a paranoid user can control what data are sent. Of course, most users will probably use a built-in sending code. Regards, Sergei