Disabling whoopsie by default in the 12.04.1 release

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:12:44PM +0100, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Steve Langasek
> <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Evan, can you provide some clarity here?  How many users is this average
> > taken from?

> It's currently using the total number of unique users for the day period:

> [default at crashdb] get Counters [utf8('users:Ubuntu 12.04')];
> ...
> => (counter=20120801, value=54191)
> => (counter=20120802, value=52659)
> => (counter=20120803, value=51273)
> => (counter=20120804, value=45861)
> => (counter=20120805, value=48042)
> => (counter=20120806, value=54958)
> => (counter=20120807, value=33539)

> This is wrong, as you've pointed out. Matthew has filed a bug for it here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/daisy/+bug/1033913

> Fixing this will not require any client-side changes.


> In case you were asking that in terms of the average number of crashes
> per day per user:
> Mean: 1.44842
> Standard deviation: 0.01867

Yep, that's the one I wanted, thanks :)

> > What's the turnover of users reporting crashes from day to day?  (I.e., it's
> > quite different if the same 5000 users are reporting 1.4 crashes per day,
> > than if 5000 *unique* users are reporting 1.4 crashes each day.) These are
> > the kinds of information I think we need to have in order to make an
> > informed decision.
> 
> We currently only count unique users per-release over the day period.
> Matthew's bug will have us tracking the unique users seen in the past
> 90 day period. If there's some other interval you'd like to track, do
> let me know. As before, this will require no client-side changes.

Ok.  How soon could we expect the fix for that bug to be rolled out?  Do I
understand correctly that this can't be done quickly as a one-time query
because the database structure needs to be updated first?

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