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

[Alec Warner]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Joachim Bartosik <jbartosik@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've been super busy at work, but I'll try to think about this and get
back to you tonight or tomorrow.

-A

>
> 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
>