Bugzilla Installation List

[Kleindenst, Fred]

I can imagine a feature in the admin section such that:

* admin user:
  -- files out voluntary info
  -- clicks a "send my info to Mozilla" button
* feature compiles some info from existing buzilla installation
  -- some type of checksum for validity checking
  -- maybe an anonymized hash based upon urlbase/etc/etc
  -- report back version info
  -- report back total bugs/comments/users (voluntary)
* feature does a http rpc to a service at Mozilla

Call it "self registration".  Wrap it up with some kind of inducement if you like.

Note my company uses bugzilla, but we don't have our service out in public.

Cheers

--Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org [mailto:developers-owner at bugzilla.org] On Behalf Of Gervase Markham
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 8:35 AM
To: dev-apps-bugzilla at lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Bugzilla Installation List

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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