On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If someone only uses Wine periodically/infrequently, we're unlikely to see it. > > Currently, we've got two problems: > 1) We want to collect Wine usage data, so we know where to concentrate > our efforts. > 2) We don't want to bug developers with this, because we'll frequently > go through dozens of wineboots in a day. > > Current proposals: > 1) Run a dialog box on first wineboot asking to opt in. > 2) Disable the dialog box by default, but allow distros to enable it, > so we don't bother devs. > 3) Run the dialog box periodically, reminding users about the survey. > 4) Put an option in Winecfg to allow opting in, similar to Ubuntu's > installer's advanced options allowing to opt-in to the package survey. > > Problems for propsals: > 1) Will annoy developers, which means, won't happen. > 2) Possibly viable, but we're then depending on the distros to enable > it. While Ubuntu/Suse probably won't be a problem (nudges > Scott/Marcus), the others may be. > 3) More trouble to implement, and annoying. > 4) Depends on users finding the survey and opting in. Will give > slightly biased info, as well as less than options 1 or 2 would. > > I'm leaning toward 2 or 4. The others are annoying/not worth it. > Remember, we're not going to get EVERYONE. The idea, however, is to at > least get SOMETHING, so we know where/what to target. Currently, we're > shooting in the dark. >
You're not thinking about the end result of 2. In a peachy world, all distros would enable what we ask them to, then we still get bugged by popups. 4 is the only viable opt-in option. -- James Hawkins
