Hm. That seems like more work than just asking people when it seems relevant. Maybe the status quo is best, after all.
Robby On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > Making it easy for people to include their prefs in bug reports seems like a > good thing. > > Like now, I think one would want to expose to people in a reasonable fashion > what info is being disclosed, and permit them to opt-out. Or maybe they > should have opt-in, if you're including the *all* the preferences. > > Like now, you could also permit them to edit the info, such as if they > wanted to remove references to a confidential project but leave the other > info intact. Editing is problematic for debugging from this info, but a > compromise. The bug-reporting tool could indicate that the info has been > edited by the user. > > Looking at "racket-prefs.rktd" just now, it's not that big, and is fairly > readable, but it could be presented better for informed consent. Maybe the > most bang for the buck would be to sort it by increasing order of > known-benign-ness and secondarily by size of value. So, near the top would > be info like user's name, recent files, and REPL history. In the middle > would be things that are likely benign, but that might conceivably reveal > proprietary info (e.g., "plt:framework-pref:framework:tabify" and default > language can refer to confidential names). Near the end would be things > like window geometries. And very near the end would be the color > preferences, which seem to pretty-print big. Preferences we don't recognize > would be at or near the very top. Then just pretty-print it, maybe > syntax-color it, and permit it to be viewed/edited. (Basically, do the > opposite of what some software and online companies do with EULAs, AUPs, and > privacy policies. Emphasize the stuff most relevant to subject rather than > burying it, and don't force it to be viewed in a tiny font in a > 30x5-character window like we don't want people to actually read it.) > > > Robby Findler wrote at 09/27/2011 08:29 PM: >> >> Should I change DrRacket's bug report window so it includes the user's >> preferences file? It would have been helpful in more than a few bugs >> now but I'm not sure if it would bother people to have it put in >> there. >> > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
