Hi
This hardly seems last minute at all. My
${user.home}/.eclipse/eclipse.uuid has a
#Tue May 03 08:41:32 BST 2016
timestamp indicating that it was almost certainly created by M7. Why the
one month delay in notifying us?
Why no start up dialog in M7 onwards informing us that we are being
default opted in?
Regards
Ed Willink
On 04/06/2016 06:50, Christian Campo wrote:
hi
is that a last minute idea that came up recently or why is it only
revealed now that is pretty much too late for any change ?
Gruß
Christian
Am 03.06.2016 um 17:13 schrieb Ian Skerrett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
All,
I wanted to make everyone aware that a UUID has been added to the
Eclipse Platform [1] and is available in the current Neon RC. This
was done at the request of the Eclipse Foundation.
The UUID is automatically generated and stored in the
${user.home}/.eclipse/eclipse.uuid file. The UUID does not contain
any personally identifiable information. If a user do not want to
have this property set they are instructed to set eclipse.uuid=0.
Information about the UUID has been included in the Eclipse Platform
N&N [2].
The UUID will be automatically added to the user-agent of http
requests to *.eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org> servers. For Neon, the
projects that make these types of requests include p2 [1], MPC [3]
and AERI [4]. I would expect other projects will add a uuid in the
future.
The immediate questions for many people are 1) why are we doing this,
and 2) what about the privacy concerns. Let me attempt to answer
both of these questions.
Why are we doing this?
The Eclipse Foundation has started an program to better understand
our user community. We are using a log file analysis service, Splunk,
to analyze many of our log files to get a better idea of how people
are using Eclipse. For instance, how many people actively use
Eclipse, what version of Java is the most popular with the Eclipse
user community, what version of Eclipse Platform is being used or
what operating system is being used? In the past, this type of
information was typically a ‘best guess’. We believe can do better by
having the actual data of our user community. The UUID will allow us
to get a more accurate answer to many of these questions.
What about the privacy concerns?
The UUID is anonymous and does not contain personably identifiable
information. We only intend to use and analyze the UUID at an
aggregate level. A user is able to opt-out of sending a UUID by
setting eclipse.uuid=0. The Eclipse Foundation has a published
Privacy Policy [5] that details our specific practices.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I
appreciate this might be a sensitive topic but I do believe it is the
right thing to do for the Eclipse community.
Regards
Ian
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=490112
<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=490112>
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.6/platform.php
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492916
<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492916>
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492917
<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=492917>
[4] https://eclipse.org/legal/privacy.php
<https://eclipse.org/legal/privacy.php>
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