On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:18 -0800, William Stein <[email protected]>
wrote:
-1 to the phone home idea. It might be good to warn of releases
that are
really old, but this won't help with the one already in Debian.
- Robert
Since we're voting,
+1 to the phone home idea
simply because I've received requests for this feature *frequently*
when I give talks. It's really standard in just about all major
software these days. People really want some easy automatic way to
find out when a new version has been released and is ready for them
to
upgrade to.
Hmm... Would we warn users about the new release every two weeks?
Would the notice become more permanent after a set amount of time/more
major upgrade (otherwise I think people will become desensitized).
Thinking about it more, I'm not as opposed to it as I originally
thought. It could be a good way to collect use data (versions, number
of users) though we have to be careful about that as it's a slippery
slope.
If we do decide to do this I think a formal vote would be nice to get
a sense of the "average user's" position on the balance between
convenience and privacy.
Note that some of the major software that does this also allows you to
turn it off (I'm thinking of Firefox here).
Yes, we should make turning off this feature easier than finding and
modifying the relevant code :).
- Robert
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