Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[James Hawkins]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Very true. Where it would help is with knowing what apps people are
> running. Many people might try Wine, and never get it to work, then
> give up without filing a bug. Conversely, some people might have it
> work perfectly fine, but since it works great, we never see bugs
> filed. By collecting these statistics, we'll be able to know what apps
> to focus on, which will give a bit better direction on which bugs to
> fix, which features to implement, etc.
>

That's some pretty strange logic.  If most people are running app X,
but we don't know about it because it runs really well so we don't get
a lot of bug reports for it, then why would we want to *focus* on that
app?  We should be focusing on apps that don't work, or have lots of
bugs.  We already have this information from the thousands of bug
reports in bugzilla.

-- 
James Hawkins