Measuring success/failure in the installation

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:52:45PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:20:30AM -0700, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Evan Dandrea <ev at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > To be clear, since it wasn't addressed in my original email, I intend
> > > to only present percentages of successful and unsuccessful installs.
> >  3) Collaboration.
> > 
> >     This, to my mind, is the most important.
> 
> This is a good reason to share raw data.  It's useful for people to be able
> to run their own analyses.
> 
> That said, the question of whether we share the raw data isn't a
> deciding factor for me.  I think we should do this measurement because it's
> useful in itself.

Can you describe how it is useful? I still don't see why the numbers would
actually tell us anything actionable. Having a raw count of number of
installs might be interesting, but I'm not sure I see the step to "useful".

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team