I would opt-in. I also agree with Simon that privacy is no longer a big deal although I do believe that most companies do telemetry with an opt in policy. If it's opt-in why would anyone have a problem with telemetry?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:46 PM Tom Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I have wanted telemetry for years. ("Telemetry" is the term Microsoft, > and I think others, use for the phone-home feature.) > > It would tell us how many people are using GHC; currently I have literally > no idea. > > > In practice I think the best data we could get is "how many people are > using GHC && are willing to opt into phone-home," which seems like a > rougher number than e.g. downloads of ghc/HP or number of downloads of > base/containers or something similar. I also would not opt in. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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