Bugzilla Installation List

[Gervase Markham]

I've been remiss at maintaining the Bugzilla Installation List:
http://www.bugzilla.org/installation-list/

Part of the reason is that every time I think about doing it, my heart
sinks because I have a sneaking suspicion some people don't actually use
Bugzilla, they just email their site name in to get Google juice. And
there's no good way of telling. I changed a few years ago to using
rel=nofollow for non-public ones, and that helped, but I still suspect
some of the remaining ones.

And of course there's the issue that we have no idea if people are
_still_ using Bugzilla who said they were 8 years ago.

So my plan is to change the list to list only publicly-accessible
Bugzillas. They can have "requirelogin" set, that's OK, as long as the
front page can be seen over the web. Then we can verify the truthfulness
of assertions.

What other options are there? A ping to us from each install that gives
the urlbase would be a privacy issue, and not necessarily verifiable
anyway. One can imagine more complex schemes, but they'd all require
setting up and maintaining.

Does anyone have an alternative suggestion, or should I go ahead with
the public-only plan?

Gerv
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