I can't imagine anyone in a serious enterprise turning it on on purpose... But I can imagine FUD arising from its existence. I'm not in favor of any call home type functionality.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 3:03 PM Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/26/22 12:06, Ishan Chattopadhyaya wrote: > > > I wonder if we should build in some kind of "call home" functionality > > On principle, I would object to anything like this. It breaks the > > trust. Makes users suspicious. Puts more onus on practitioners to vet > > the releases for something sneaky. > > I much prefer Marcus Eagan's proposal for a PMC driven survey for our > > community members and users. > > The very first thing on my idea list is to make sure that it will never > be enabled without somebody explicitly turning it on. To do otherwise > would indeed be a breach of trust. > > I haven't yet gone to look in Jira to see if there is an existing > issue. I will get to that this evening (US timezones). > > Thanks, > Shawn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) http://www.the111shift.com (play)
