One of the problems we have with core development is that we don't have data to tell us what system configurations Drupal is run on. For example, there was debate for Drupal 7 about the availability of the SQLite PDO driver. If Update module posted system information when checking for updates, we'd have actual data to know what is and isn't commonly available.
Some things we'd need to figure out:
- What data would we want to collect? PHP modules, web server configuration, OS information?
- Exactly how we'd anonymize and protect the data, as well as make it available for others to reuse.
- If we'd want it to be opt-in or opt-out during site installation.
- The infrastructure changes required on drupal.org to collect the submitted data.
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Comment #11
deviantintegral commentedThe telemetry initiative will have this well in hand one way or another.