Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 15:28:26 CDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If someone only uses Wine periodically/infrequently, we're unlikely to see it.
>
> Currently, we've got two problems:
> 1) We want to collect Wine usage data, so we know where to concentrate
> our efforts.
> 2) We don't want to bug developers with this, because we'll frequently
> go through dozens of wineboots in a day.
>
> Current proposals:
> 1) Run a dialog box on first wineboot asking to opt in.
> 2) Disable the dialog box by default, but allow distros to enable it,
> so we don't bother devs.
> 3) Run the dialog box periodically, reminding users about the survey.
> 4) Put an option in Winecfg to allow opting in, similar to Ubuntu's
> installer's advanced options allowing to opt-in to the package survey.
>
> Problems for propsals:
> 1) Will annoy developers, which means, won't happen.
> 2) Possibly viable, but we're then depending on the distros to enable
> it. While Ubuntu/Suse probably won't be a problem (nudges
> Scott/Marcus), the others may be.
> 3) More trouble to implement, and annoying.
> 4) Depends on users finding the survey and opting in. Will give
> slightly biased info, as well as less than options 1 or 2 would.
>
> I'm leaning toward 2 or 4. The others are annoying/not worth it.
> Remember, we're not going to get EVERYONE. The idea, however, is to at
> least get SOMETHING, so we know where/what to target. Currently, we're
> shooting in the dark.
>

You're not thinking about the end result of 2.  In a peachy world, all
distros would enable what we ask them to, then we still get bugged by
popups.  4 is the only viable opt-in option.

-- 
James Hawkins



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