<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Victor - Does this count the number of users who simply loaded the module? Or users who submitted a job using the petsc module (if that’s even tracked?). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Barry - w.r.t. your point about questionnaires not being overly useful what about asking users to send automated diagnostic reports if petsc has been successfully built on their machines? So you finish configure and make all and reach the make check prompt and get a message about a one-time system report sent:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...</div><div class="">=========================================<br class="">Now to check if the libraries are working do:<br class="">make PETSC_DIR=/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-darwin-c-debug check<br class="">=========================================<br class="">OPTIONAL: One-time request to send basic system capability information</div><div class="">to petsc developers. This is limited to OS type, gpu capability, {insert other data here}</div><div class="">and is used to improve CI/CD coverage, usage statistic and development</div><div class="">priorities. This message will not be shown again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">System info can be found under ${PETSC_DIR}/lib/petsc/conf/sysinfo.txt</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Send system report to petsc developers do:</div><div class="">Make <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">PETSC_DIR=/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-darwin-c-debug send</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">=========================================</span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">This message could come up only once, and be blocked by the existence of some other file in the arch tree (or in $PETSC_DIR) irrespective of whether the user sends or not as soon as the message has been shown once.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">In our overly tracked modern software environment I can definitely appreciate that users are rightfully distrustful of yet another data collection request, but if it is transparent and un-intrusive enough it may be palatable.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div class="">
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