On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Grant Baillie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi, all
Jeffrey raises some good questions in Bug 12097, that I'm including
below, along with my own comments. Please pipe up if you have an
opinion ...
- How do we disclose that we're sending out these auto-update
pings? For now,
personally I think it'd be fine to just prompt "turn on new-version-
check?
(yes, no, don't show again) at startup.
Is it OK to put up a dialog at startup (or, soon after startup)? I
ask because we've been generally trying to reduce the number of
dialogs at startups, of course. I'm also planning, as part of fixing
the above bug, "remembering" (i.e. recording in backup.chex) the
user's preference here.
Seems like it's pretty standard to prompt the user (Never, Daily,
Weekly) or
something like that. If we're going to allow varying frequencies,
we might
want to consider making the ping include ?freq=daily/weekly, so we
can multiple
weekly pings by seven to harmonize our statistics...
Ah, not a bad idea ... I could add that somewhere to the request.
- Can we include the repository UUID or hash of the UUID in the
ping, to even
more clearly measure how many repositories are in use? Does this
violate
people's privacy?
I've been led to believe that so long as we can't extract any
personal information from such a ping, it's OK. But it would be good
to get confirmation of this.
If Chandler is run in non debug mode, ie with -O, uuids are crypto
random generated. In debug mode, uuids have recoverable NIC id and
timestamp in it. This tracing feature is intended for debugging only.
Andi..
--Grant
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