Thanks Marcel!

Comments inline...

> On 21 Oct 2016, at 16:27, Marcel Bruch <marcel.br...@codetrails.com> wrote:
>> - what is a reporter id?
> 
> A standard UUID. We generate it once per user-home. We use that information 
> to allow searches like “Give me all error reports ±5 minutes around this 
> error report” or to collect how many users actually hit a problem (to assess 
> its severity) etc.

Which is a nice metric. I'm wondering if it is as relevant as how ofter the 
same error has been hit (regardless of user count).

>> - is the reporter id an "opt-in”?
> 
> Yes and no. You opt in to send error reports w/ a uuid when you enable AERI 
> (announced and implemented so from day one).

So it is  opt-in. I don't see any issues then.

> FWIW, there is a change in progress that allows users to generate a fresh 
> UUID on every eclipse startup.

off-topic, but doesn't that make the metric mentioned above impossible?

-Gunnar



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Gunnar Wagenknecht
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