This came up on IRC today, slightly edited version of the conversation follows: <rangi> back in about 1.2 days <1angi> as part of the makefile <rangi> we had an option to 'register' <rangi> magnuse/paul_p: maybe a button in the about page, register with the koha community ? <rangi> it could submit the about info, that way we could get info about versions too <rangi> would just need a webservice listening that it could post too <rangi> maybe on koha-community.org <rangi> and totally voluntary <snail> does the generated HTML advertise the version? we could check automagically for updates / statuses <rangi> snail: yeah if they were out on the web, lots of special/corporate libraries live on intranets <magnuse> it's in the generator meta tag <magnuse> <meta name="generator" content="Koha 3.0500001" /> <!-- leave this for stats --> <snail> dspace is switching to advertising versions in the generator tag too <rangi> i think a button where we can encourage ppl to click on <rangi> is a good first step <rangi> then we could extend it to periodically check <rangi> maybe a checkbox <rangi> some way to opt back out again <rangi> ie to turn our checking off <rangi> it could be a checkbox/syspref that just adds 'dont check' to the html, and then they have to resubmit <rangi> we need a student, its a perfect little project for a student, build a db, an a script to populate it <rangi> then add the button to koha <rangi> you dont even need to know [K]oha to do it The log: http://stats.workbuffer.org/irclog/koha/2011-05-03#i_658645
It would be even cooler if the line contained a URL into a repository. This would avoid confusion over which people had which features when they'd built their own koha version. <meta name="generator" content="Koha 3.0500001 http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/" />
RFC on the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Add_a_button_to_the_intranet_for_registering_with_the_Koha_community
If there was consensus about it, we could also add koha sites to netcraft (see for example http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.library.org.nz ) and http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11926 ***