(cross posted to governance@ and privacy@) As I discussed during last week's development meeting and this week's coordination meeting, this post is to inform you of the intent to enable Telemetry by default on the Aurora and Nightly channels. This is a change that I first discussed back in Feb 2012 [1], and that may land as soon as Dec. 19, 2012.
Most users on Firefox Nightly and Firefox Aurora are developers and highly technical users who actively contribute to help us build a more excellent browser by providing us with feedback. Enabling Telemetry by default on these channels makes it easier for them to do so by allowing Mozilla to better identify new issues and regressions early in the development cycle and make Firefox a better product. We've carefully considered all of the implications of making this change and teams across Mozilla have been engaged throughout the process. Enabling Telemetry by default in these channels is consistent with user expectations associated with helping us fully test and evaluate new versions of Firefox. We'll provide notice to users of the change via multiple means and disabling Telemetry will be a simple process. More details about this change and the rationale have been summarized in this FAQ: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telemetry/faq Please respond with questions and comments to dev-platform. Lawrence [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-02-01 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
