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that's why telemetry is imporant If I were doing serious OSS I'd really hard consider adding just something like a once-a-week ping just to be aware of users c
by tester34 5y ago
that's why telemetry is imporant
If I were doing serious OSS I'd really hard consider adding just something like a once-a-week ping just to be aware of users count
ofc with an ability to disable it
- glangdale 5y agoSaaS or something explicitly that people know will 'phone home' is one thing, but putting unexpected telemetry into a library would be staggeringly unprofessional.
- wrycoder 5y agoThere is the Debian popularity contest: popcon.debian.org , which tracks how many Debian users have a given package installed.
- account42 5y agopopcon is intirely opt-in though, quite different from automatic telemetry that the user doesn't even knwo about
- n_marcetic 5y agoNot really, there is a lot of projects doing this as an anonymous statistic, for example InfluxDB sends anonymous statistics about your InfluxDB instance to their server. This way they have overview/statistic of usage (they are visualize it on word map, looks amazing), together with data like OS, version you use etc... You can disable this in config https://influxdbcom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/docs/v0.9/administration/config/ https://influxdbcom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/docs/v0...
- csharptwdec19 5y agoFrankly, there could be some value to OSS contributors in saying 'There is Telemetry' very up front, but also in the same breath telling people that instructions for disabling Telemetry is in the Docs. Could help lower the number of GH issues that are filed because people don't read said docs...