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EE usage ping

If people start using EE more it would be nice to know this in realtime, so we can engage before the renewal comes up. We want the on-premises GitLab EE server to tell us the amount of active users.

Options (and disadvantages) are:

  1. Have the server ping us (firewalls might block this)
  2. Encode in the version check (might be confusing, can be turned off)
  3. Use the version check loads as a proxy for usage (imprecise)

Not sure if we should allow users to turn this off.

In any case:

  1. We should disclose that this is happening
  2. We should not build this into CE

/cc @ChadMalchow