HardwareDatabaseRoadmap
Revision 4 as of 2005-04-21 00:10:52
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Goal
Analyze data collected by the Hoary hardware database client, and consider improvements for Breezy.
Where are we now
more then 16000 datasets in < 30 days (currently 763 submissions a day in average)
- collecting device and bios data, as well as xorg log/config and boot data
- client points you to your online record on the second run
- postgres server solution is in the works
- no inclusion of the client in reportbug yet (automated inclusion of the hwdb ID in bugreports)
- client needs improvement to have the full featureset i planned
Ideas and suggestions
What can we do with the current data
- 1st usecase is a online device manager with log viewer
- getting hardware statistics and detailed reports
- determining the quality of our current hardware support
- find good/bad supported HW to improve the situation
- loads of statistics are possible
Whats the future ?
- fixing the remaining bugs in the client indeed
- additional automated test sets
- checking for second network-, sound- and videocard
- client sided update functionality for the dataset
- make the client configurable, so it can send to a local server instead
- make a own server package for integration in standalone intranet helpdesk systems
- pull more kernel information/module data and settings (use hal's defined but unused module options)
- invent some server security to prevent us from being slashdotted by marketing companys that might try to hook up scripts to our data
- get more patches into the upstream hal version (easier with the new hal 0.5), to make hwdb-client usable in debian too (we get some malformed datasets from crossgraders with the wrong hal version but dont want to tighten the dependencys)
a new rocking "breezy" GUI so the user cant resist playing with it and must submit