Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

i dont think wede get enough responses in that scenario.