That should be possible, though it might be beyond my apache/html-fu right now. I'm also not so clear on what legal considerations there are for an end-user license agreement, and of course someone would have to come up with the text.

Assuming the above hurdles are cleared, it would also be possible to embed the agreement in the .dmg files (Mac OS), or Windows installer. (Not sure if there's a facility for this in .deb files).

--Grant

On 11 Jun, 2008, at 11:01, Mimi Yin wrote:

It sounds like what Jeffrey is describing is really a formal "install" workflow with a step for "Agreeing" with the "End-User- License-Agreement".

I don't think it's something we should pop up once you've launched the app.

Could we intercept the download experience from the website? Take the user to a page where they essentially "Agree" to terms of use for the application? Once they've done that, we proceed to the Product Tour.

Mimi

On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Grant Baillie 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.

--Grant

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