Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'?
On Monday, 13 April 2020 19:43:07 CEST Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 19:41 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > > Less generic, if we could keep this thread about $Subject, would be > > 'telemetry'. Less positive also, but not as likely to be used for > > different > > purpose in the future. > > Why not call it 'spyware'? ;-) > > /me hides It probably had to come up but imo the way they are implementing it is fine. https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy Since it is Opt-In feature the flag would be even safe to enable by default. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'?
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 19:41 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > On Monday, 13 April 2020 17:01:37 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 4/13/20 10:58 AM, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > > > Going to be used by 10 packages. > > > > > > Description: "Send anonymized usage information to upstream so they can > > > better understand our users" > > > > These are all really generic words that might be used by other > > (non-QT/KDE) packages to mean totally different things. > > Less generic, if we could keep this thread about $Subject, would be > 'telemetry'. Less positive also, but not as likely to be used for different > purpose in the future. Why not call it 'spyware'? ;-) /me hides -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'?
On Monday, 13 April 2020 17:01:37 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/13/20 10:58 AM, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > > Going to be used by 10 packages. > > > > Description: "Send anonymized usage information to upstream so they can > > better understand our users" > > These are all really generic words that might be used by other > (non-QT/KDE) packages to mean totally different things. Less generic, if we could keep this thread about $Subject, would be 'telemetry'. Less positive also, but not as likely to be used for different purpose in the future. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
