Dear Marko > first of all I apologise if my words were too harsh. It was not my intention > to attack you or anyone else on a personal level!
Apology accepted and thank you for your kind reaction. > I am just concerned about everyone’s privacy. I think you were in fact asking the right questions such as who gets access to the statistics data and how personalized the data actually is. I feel your questions have improved the statistics setup and our policies for dealing with the data. > And I admit my comparison was perhaps a bit over the top, but the revelations > of the past year have made me a bit nervous regarding the privacy topic. I can totally relate to that and I agree this is an important topic. > I am sorry that it came across as inappropriate, but this post regarding > handing over the database: > — > > I'd take a copy. Maybe you could just put it on DropBox or something > > similar? > — > made me shudder because I thought we’d distribute the database with all > information including UUID to anyone who can work dropbox. > Does that not sound odd? I agree. I was not going to distribute the database using a public download link, especially not with any personal data in it and to non-committers. I think as a result from the discussion we can record that no user-generated data should leave the statistics server in non-aggregated form. This is what I have done so far and I think it's a reasonable thing to do in the future aswell. I will provide (and have provided) a tarball with the database schema (that's generated from the ruby code and open source anyway) and the data from the - categories, - ports, and - schema_migrations tables, which is information generated from the rails database code and the PortIndex. This might be useful to people working on the statistics code b/c it isn't trivial to setup the scripts that will populate these tables from the PortIndex (e.g. doing this on a Linux server as I do requires a source installation of MacPorts on Linux, which is tricky). Data from the - installed_ports, - os_statistics, - submissions, and - users tables will stay on my server only. > I was - from the beginning on - actually always PRO this feature, i.e. I DO > SEE the advantage to have such a system in place. If you go back to those > discussion on the list you will see that. So, I am not against this great > feature at all. Sorry, I didn't go back to re-read the archives on that -- I probably should have instead of accusing you out of the blue. So, let's get this matter behind us and back to improving MacPorts, which is what we're all here for. :-) -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
