Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[Austin English]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:06 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Zachary Goldberg <zgold at bluesata.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You guys need to realize that in any given day we, as developers,
>>> destroy and recreate wineprefixes several times.  Having a popup for
>>> every wineprefix creation will be extremely annoying.  If this can't
>>> be done behind the scenes, say as a winecfg option, then I wouldn't
>>> expect to get much support for this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Hawkins
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why it would present any technical problem to have a way
>> to disable this.. wineprefixcreate --quiet?
>>
>
> Because then the policy is opt-out instead of opt-in.  Also,
> wineprefixcreate is run automatically now anytime a wineprefix is
> created; how will you handle the quiet option for those cases?  I
> don't have a problem with someone figuring out a way to get usage
> statistics and implementing it as long as it doesn't change our work
> flow.
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>

How about we add it in the Winecfg about box, below the registration
information, to enable the survey?

Most people won't be bothered, but those curious people that search in
there would find it. Send a note along to wine-users/add it in the
announcements, so people can be aware of it.

- Austin