Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-10 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
the data to a few people. (Even if you ask users for permission to gather >> data, I am quite sure, you still need a privacy policy.) >> >> Manuel >> >> >>> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of MarLinn >>> via ghc-d

Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-10 Thread Moritz Angermann
, you still need a privacy policy.) > > Manuel > > >> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of MarLinn >> via ghc-devs >> Sent: 09 December 2016 14:52 >> To: ghc-devs@haskell.org >> Subject: Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real wo

Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-09 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
users for permission to gather data, I am quite sure, you still need a privacy policy.) Manuel > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of MarLinn via > ghc-devs > Sent: 09 December 2016 14:52 > To: ghc-devs@haskell.org > Subject: Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attemp

Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-09 Thread Phyx
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes: > > > Just to say: > > > > > > · Telemetry is a good topic > > > > · It is clearly a delicate one as we’ve already seen from two widely > > differing reactions. That’s why I have never seriously contempla

RE: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes: > Just to say: > > > · Telemetry is a good topic > > · It is clearly a delicate one as we’ve already seen from two widely > differing reactions. That’s why I have never seriously contemplated > doing anything about it. > > · I’m love a consensus to emerge o

RE: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-09 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
many people are running each version of their software. Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of MarLinn via ghc-devs Sent: 09 December 2016 14:52 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark) It could tell us which

Re: Telemetry (WAS: Attempt at a real world benchmark)

2016-12-09 Thread MarLinn via ghc-devs
It could tell us which language features are most used. Language features are hard if they are not available in separate libs. If in libs, then IIRC debian is packaging those in separate packages, again you can use their package contest. What in particular makes them hard? Sorry if this s