Re: [Chandler-dev] Auto-update questions
Andi Vajda <vajda-6zGkXsw2EZWGJGYlWa3Ukdi2O/[email protected]>
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On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Grant Baillie <grant-6zGkXsw2EZWGJGYlWa3Ukdi2O/[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all > > Jeffrey raises some good questions in Bug 12097, that I'm including > below, along with my own comments. Please pipe up if you have an > opinion ... > >> - How do we disclose that we're sending out these auto-update >> pings? For now, >> personally I think it'd be fine to just prompt "turn on new-version- >> check? >> (yes, no, don't show again) at startup. > > Is it OK to put up a dialog at startup (or, soon after startup)? I > ask because we've been generally trying to reduce the number of > dialogs at startups, of course. I'm also planning, as part of fixing > the above bug, "remembering" (i.e. recording in backup.chex) the > user's preference here. > >> Seems like it's pretty standard to prompt the user (Never, Daily, >> Weekly) or >> something like that. If we're going to allow varying frequencies, >> we might >> want to consider making the ping include ?freq=daily/weekly, so we >> can multiple >> weekly pings by seven to harmonize our statistics... > > Ah, not a bad idea ... I could add that somewhere to the request. > >> - Can we include the repository UUID or hash of the UUID in the >> ping, to even >> more clearly measure how many repositories are in use? Does this >> violate >> people's privacy? > > I've been led to believe that so long as we can't extract any > personal information from such a ping, it's OK. But it would be good > to get confirmation of this. If Chandler is run in non debug mode, ie with -O, uuids are crypto random generated. In debug mode, uuids have recoverable NIC id and timestamp in it. This tracing feature is intended for debugging only. Andi.. > > > --Grant > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev