A suggestion for usage data upload (#1482)

ipspace · Nov 3, 2024 · b82d82d · b82d82d
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 The user could inspect the usage data with **netlab usage show**, reset it with **netlab usage reset**, and upload it with **netlab usage upload**.
 
 While it's relatively easy to implement the data collection part, the infrastructure supporting the uploads remains a mystery.
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+## Option A - separate GitHub project ```netlab_usage```
+One option is to use GitHub for collecting usage data: Using a separate repo, Netlab would push and commit the usage file to a location under that repo.
+Security wise, this would require an access token with limited write permissions (hence the separate repo - not sure if we could restrict access well enough within 1 repo)