About #

“Count Me” is a a telemetry mechanism that reports how many systems are currently running Fedora / Centos of any given version. It tries to do this in a privacy-preserving manner by having dnf randomly select one request per week (typically, a request to check for updates) to include some system information.

We collect this data by scraping the web logs and anonymizing the dataset to redact IP addresses.

We then publish this data upstream publicly, in a format which nearly meets Bronze criteria.

• CountMe System:
  • Initial Proposal
  • Backend Scraper
    • Fedora Infra’s page on this service
  • Public Results
• Known Users:
  • Universal Blue
    • ublue-os/countme - processes this data, generates .svg graphs and badges and stores them in its own git repo.
    • Their homepage - one of several websites which hotlink over to their git repo’s generated svg.

Status #

Last updated: 2025-10-08

• Reconnaissance: WIP

Quality Roadmap #

We have two git repos (which we call the “dino” repos) that contain code to 1) apply the historical definition of Silver (“brontosaurusifier”) and 2) produce some graphs from the silver data (“velociraptorizer”). I could be wrong but I believe that the graphs are currently broken (or turned off?), but it seems at a glance that the bronto repo is still running / churning out Silver data.

We need to identify and connect with users of the existing raw output and “Dino output” to validate that we understand their use cases for this data.

• Known Users
  • “Dino tools”
    • Brontosaurusifier
    • Velociraptorizer