Why not make it a button? "A problem appears! [Click here] to
send details of this problem to the package developers."
6 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> John Clements wrote at 09/09/2011 04:00 PM:
> > On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not familiar with CPANTS, but automating real-world feedback something
> >> like that sounds useful.
> >>
> >> I think you should be conscientious about the tiny "phoning back to the
> >> mothership with more info" privacy problem, and how best to manage that,
> >> even if it's just real disclosure (not "privacy policy" smallprint). I
> >> can't think of anyone else in the US who is right now, but I think that
> >> information privacy should always be a consideration in automated
> >> community-sourcing problems.
> >>
> >
> > Sigh... I respectfully disagree. I feel that in some ways, this argument
> > eight years ago prevented us from gathering a whole bunch of information
> > that could have been quite useful to us. It depends on whether you see
> > Racket as a bulwark against a rising tide of invasive internet presence, or
> > as the potential beneficiary of social media tools.
> >
>
> I'm saying: do it, but be conscientious in how you do it. Look at it
> this way: you're setting a good example for the students, who will go on
> to build the next generation of systems, and who will influence their
> contemporaries and the generation beyond that. Otherwise, we'll all
> just continue to take our lessons from billionaire sociopaths. :)
>
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Reclined in a defunct and truly obese satellite dish,
_mike
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