On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:28 PM, James Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
If developers are building from git and not enabling that option, we wouldn't be bugged by it, only end users would.