Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

Le 2010-10-28 03:52, Sveinn í Felli a écrit :
> 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

Good points Sveinn.

Marc


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