Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[Chris Ahrendt]

Juan Lang wrote:
>> I think we do Juan..
>> reason being is that information is not always captured when people put
>> things into bugzilla..  if we had a way that its entered initially (if we
>> could gather it automagically)  then have them attach the file  when they do
>> a bugzilla that might work a little better...
> 
> I disagree that this should be a goal.  Our intention was to sample
> the applications that people are running, and not to require it.  That
> is, it should be an opt-in survey.  Getting better bugzilla reports
> should be orthogonal to this, and would be a task better handled as a
> crash tracker like Dr. Watson.
> 
> And to preempt comments like, "Why not do both?", we shouldn't
> provider better support to people that opt-in to our optional survey
> than to those who don't.
> --Juan
so why not collect it period when wine starts up... dump it to a file 
and let people know we are doing it. Have the ability to turn it off..
once the file gets to a certain size send it in if there is an active
internet connection or zip and mail it off...

chris