[Kde-hardware-devel] Data Collector

[did.hoarau at club-internet.fr]

Hi All,

This is my first email in this mailling list, si let me 
introduce myself :
It has been a long time since I wanted to getting involved 
in an open source project. As I really like KDE I decided to 
join a KDE 4 team. I am a french software engineer (I 
graduated in 2006) and I have been using Linux & KDE for the 
last 6 years.

Now let's talk about the task I picked up in the Wiki. As I 
had to begin somewhere I picked up a small project in the 
Wiki (http://solid.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Tasks) : the Data 
Collector.
OK, so to begin to work on this (and after I have read the 
Wiki & Solid Website page) I have asked myself a few 
questions:
When this will be used ?
What kind of data will be collected ?
How and where will the data be sent ?

I have though a little bit about these things and I have 
made my own opinion on them:

When it will be used: I guess the users will use this wizard 
when some of his devices do not work properly (not detected, 
not properly configured, when he doesn't know how to used it 
on KDE, etc...). I imagine it his a little bit like a bug 
report.

What kind of data: I suppose it will contain information on 
the devices on the user's computer (known by solid). I also 
suppose the user will be able to send his comment on this 
(what it's going wrong, etc...). Maybe he doesn't want to 
send all information known by solid but only a part of it.

Where the data will be sent: I guess the data will be sent 
by email or to a web service (or something like that) on the 
Internet.

I don't know if I get it right, but if I have forgotten 
something of if I have misanderstood something, just tell 
me.

Bye

Didier.

PS: As we are at the beginning of 2007 and as it is my first 
message, Happy New Year !