Wouldn't this be way too privacy-infringing?
I would personally draw the line to:
- don't send anything identifying the user (no email ids etc.)
- don't send anything about his/her environment (that would be
potentially identifying, too)
We all know there's plenty of privacy-concerned people out on the
net, and fink 'calling home' could be easily scandalized at slashdot,
osnews etc. Since normally commercial tools are known to do such.
Why take risks?
But.. as a volunteer package maintainer I _very_ much would
appreciate getting statistics feedback on package usage. Download,
build, success/failure. Maybe platform as well (PowerPC, Intel, # of
CPUs would be great).
Would not mind having a user feedback channel, either but the
packaging already carries the email addresses. I think I've gotten 0
mail through them, though. :) Guess that means all is good?
-asko
David Fang kirjoitti 6.12.2006 kello 9.07:
>> Charles Lepple wrote:
>>> On 12/4/06, Robert T Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Cool! I think the simplest implementation would be to send a
>>>> successful
>>>> build or install message to the maintainer
>
> Hi,
>
> I also like this idea, but I think any build reports should also
> include the envinronment (as seen by fink dumpinfo). Why? I enable
> MAKEFLAGS (PkgVersion.pm) in my various fink installations, which
> occasionally causes builds to break. I wouldn't want to report any
> false-failure due to parallel-unsafe compiles. Admittedly, it's
> been a
> long time since I've seen such a failure.
>
> Taking this a step further, one could add an optional info field
> like: "ParallellMakeUnsafe: true" To turn off MAKEFLAGS on per package
> basis, and maybe leave MAKEFLAGS on by default for those of us with
> *really* slow dual CPUs. :) From my testing, only a small
> minority of
> packages are affected by parallel-make. With most Macs shipping
> with 2+
> cores these days, informed users could more easily take advantage of
> multi-processors.
>
> David
>
> (anxiously awaiting quad-quad Macs)
>
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