Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Gentoo stats server/client,

[Joachim Bartosik]

Today I talked to my friend about the project and a problem I have with
stats severer/ client ( I'm still not satisfied with those I wrote about).
He is participating in project which is about trust management so the talk
was very valuable. I got a list of texts I should talk a look at unluckily
most of that requires peers reviewing peers and I think it would be hard to
apply to this project ( I plan to continue reading though just in case there
is something valuable for this project). Here are conclusions of this talk:
* users are really lazy - if we ask them to type their emails and click a
link many will be too lazy to do that.
* email-registration can be fooled.
( well I knew those two things but I didn't have any better ideas so I
sticked to it)
* we can assign level of trust to each host and when creating statistics
simply ignore those with low-level trust ( like we trust hosts that are
submitting data as asked for a long time more then new comers).
* we can make registration resource-consuming ( like solve some NP-complete
problem) not enough to make users angry ( run on low priority for a few
minutes on an average Gentoo user computer) but enough to make life of
people who would like to put a lot of fake data in our DB harder.

If we combine those two it would be probably both easier for real users and
provide better quality of data. What do you think?
-- 
Joachim Filip