Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

Þann fim 28.okt 2010 07:09, skrifaði Valter Mura:
> In data mercoledì 27 ottobre 2010 21:41:20, Marc Paré ha scritto:
>
> > I don't think I would favour this. There is too much potential for
> > gathering data from users and we could really run in trouble if
> > criticism were to spread that we are data mining our LibO users.
> >
> > Is there anything like that on the debian project?
>
> Ubuntu can gather data form its package manager, if the user enables it.

KDE has an automatic usage survey/bugreporting in the case 
of a crash, you have to install some kernel headers for it 
to be of any real help though.

> The point is how much the user is aware of the process and how much
> transparent the process is.
> If you warn the user and he/she accepts to enable the gathering, I think there
> will be no problems. Behind the data collection, limited to name,
> organization, e-mail, country, and OS and language used, there should be
> *always* the acceptance and the decision of the user.

Maybe more users would participate if such a proposition was 
anonymous (an occasional popup asking whether some usage 
data might be sent to the devs); region, locale, OS, 
software version and usage stats should suffice.
If worded adequately, people should feel they're offering 
help for further development for the benefit of all users.

> Anyway, I think also that a request of registration during installation is
> acceptable. You can add, optionally, some check boxes to activate for mailing
> list subscriptions, eg. user, discuss, announce, and so on, so that the user
> who subscribe can receive info and news. This could be an idea, also.

+1

Maybe such a popup, asking whether one would like to 
register and/or send usage data, should be activated a bit 
later than right after installation ?
First time users may think it's a bit bullying/alienating 
having this coming up right after installation. If this pops 
up after some days or a certain number of launches, then the 
users have become a bit accustomed to the software and may 
thus be a bit less overwhelmed by this additional 
information. Just a hunch.

regards,

Sveinn í Felli


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