>It's always a head scratcher for me why people building open source tools would put time and effort towards telemetry. Because you want to know what people ar

>It's always a head scratcher for me why people building open source tools would put time and effort towards telemetry. Because you want to know what people are actually using in your projects. I've never put telemetry in anything I use, but I 100% understand why. It's hard to prioritize feature development if you don't know how people are using what you're making, especially if the users aren't very vocal. Without people talking to you and without telemetry on what people are doing, you might spend months worth of man-hours on something no one cares about. For projects where all you do is build out the things you specifically need this isn't an issue - all you care about is making the stuff you're doing work, and people getting benefit out of things is a bonus but not necessarily your goal. People will submit pull requests or feature requests, or they won't. No skin off your nose. Not all projects are developed this way, though.