Telemetry Policy

Mario Fux kde-ml at unormal.org
Mon Aug 14 10:17:20 BST 2017


Am Montag, 14. August 2017, 10:57:10 CEST schrieb Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann:
> Hi,

Morning

> > On 08/14/2017 05:30 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> While I do see the point behind 'off-by-default', I think it will ruin
> >> the purpose since nobody will turn it on.
> >> 
> >> I'd propose having it on by default (at least) for pre-releases.
> > 
> > I'm not convinced. KDE publically runs on a platform of respecting
> > user privacy (it's part of the vision). On-by-default metrics run
> > the risk of someone calling bullshit on that, plus it's giving up
> > on a privacy-related differentiator if, unlike others, we're off-
> > by-default.
> 
> I would vote for "off-by-default", too.

I don't vote yet ;-).

> At the moment, we can not even judge how much data we receive with that
> policy, we can still re discuss that if we really see we get not enough
> feedback to have usable data.

So general question: How do we communicate or offer to set it on? First-run 
dialog? Release notes?

> Greetings
> Christoph

griits
Mario




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