On 2013-05-10 13:25, Dermot Williams wrote:
The fact that I could read the PHP in question to see what it's doing is beside the point. Setting aside Adam's recent (in the last hour) ninja-edit of the FAQ to cover this topic, adding a phone-home function to Observium that isn't/wasn't advertised and (assuming you've discovered that Observium phones home in the first place) can't easily be opted out of is disingenuous and worrying.
I'm not sure if it's possible to ninja-edit a Wiki where the change log is public.
I added the FAQ entry at the suggestion of another user.
The function is documented in defaults.inc.php, along with a simple method of disabling it.
You weren't expecting free software to have comprehensive documentation, were you?
Adam's dismissal of my legitimate question as trolling is pretty fucking disingenuous as well, given the nature of what we're talking about. Equally, the suggestion that I'm only asking about this since Adam published the usage stats page 'earlier' is pretty facile. If that page had existed when I discovered this behaviour, I wouldn't asking the question.
Yes. Trolling because you didn't ask anything which wasn't already answered by the page which prompted your question.
Finally, this phone-home feature is relatively new as far as I can tell and I don't recall an email to the list announcing it.
It's been there for 3 years. Most of the time it was broken, though.
We added the count of OS types about 2 years ago, when the code was moved to an include.
http://fisheye.observium.org:8060/changelog/Observium?cs=2253
We only just got around to having a look at the statistics yesterday, though. :)
Ah well, Observium - it was nice while it lasted.
Have fun with Cacti. I hear they are tin-foil-hat-friendly!
adam.