From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Braun" <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>,
git@jeffhostetler.com, git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
"Jeff Hostetler" <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] telemetry design overview (part 1)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 02:14:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180611061441.GC28598@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180610000056.GD38834@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:00:57AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> I also have to look at this issue from the interests of what is best for
> the FLOSS community and for users as a whole. Adding in functionality
> that sends off usage data from a command-line tool, especially one that
> is as widely used as Git is, is not in the interests of users as a
> whole, nor is it common practice in FLOSS tools.
I'm not sure if this last statement is true. For instance, many tools
have crash-reporting functionality, and some contain more advanced
telemetry. E.g.:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telemetry
Personally I do not like this sort of data collection at all, and never
enable it. And I would be highly suspicious of any FLOSS tool that
shipped with it enabled by default. But it seems like at least some
projects _do_ find it useful, and enough people enable it to make it
worth carrying as a feature.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-07 14:53 [RFC PATCH v1] telemetry design overview (part 1) git
2018-06-07 14:53 ` [RFC PATCH v1] telemetry: design documenation git
2018-06-08 11:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-07 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH v1] telemetry design overview (part 1) Johannes Sixt
2018-06-08 9:07 ` Jeff King
2018-06-08 16:00 ` Thomas Braun
2018-06-08 22:01 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-06-08 22:20 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-09 5:03 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-09 6:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-09 6:56 ` Jeff King
2018-06-09 20:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-06-11 5:56 ` Jeff King
2018-06-09 7:31 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-09 6:51 ` Jeff King
2018-06-09 7:04 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-06-09 7:31 ` Jeff King
2018-06-12 16:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-09 6:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-06-09 20:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-06-09 22:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-06-11 6:08 ` Jeff King
2018-06-10 0:00 ` brian m. carlson
2018-06-11 6:14 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-06-11 8:30 ` Jeff King
2018-06-08 9:40 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-08 15:46 ` Duy Nguyen
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