On Sunday, June 13th, 2021 at 7:04 PM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > Yeah, I agree that telemetry is a problem in addition to being valuable > > for developers.
I've been encouraged by the recent progress in differential privacy that opt-out freedom respecting telemetry may be possible. I think this needs to be discussed and coordinated on a platform level and offered as a standard feature for packages on the platform, rather than something app developers have to implement on their own in each instance. An easy API to discover whether you have any packages that could be upgraded would be very handy as well. Currently I find this information by running `guix time-machine --branch=master -- package -u --dry-run --no-grafts` but this is imperfect, takes a long time to run, and doesn't inform me whether there's upstream package updates that aren't packaged in Guix yet but that I could use with a package transform.
