Metrics: RFC

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Sun Nov 26 01:32:13 UTC 2006


Mike McGrath wrote:
> For those not following the Fedora-Users thread it seems like a lot of
> the people kind of just 'don't care' or would at least participate.
> The thing is the ones that don't want to participate or have
> moral/ethical objections to it are very vocal, and rightfully so
> really.  As Ralf said in the thread we need to be extremely careful
> with this.

Is there a fedora-users thread?  Do you have a url to it?

> Most of the users have so far seemed to prefer opt-in to opt-out.
> 
> Whatever we do needs to be explicitly defined, probably in the release
> notes but also wherever the opt-in/out sction is.  Those that are
> concerned with privacy in any way will have plenty of notice ahead of
> time to simply not participate.

I'd rather not have an explicit opt-in/opt-out kind of decision other 
than "share my hardware profile support information with fedora 
developers - help us improve it!" with a link to a privacy policy.

--Chris




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