On 2019-3-9 22:55 , Saagar Jha wrote: > > FWIW, while I am not opposed to MacPorts adding clearly communicated, > opt-in, self-hosted analytics; I would be /very/ strongly against doing > this if any of these conditions was not met. Doubly so if the initial > discussion to do this is made without users being able to provide input, > triply if the feature stays largely unchanged even when users complain, > and quadruply if this discussion is forcefully closed, unresolved, > because “the feature has already shipped”.
Yes, gathering of this data needs to remain strictly opt-in, and using something like Google Analytics would be a whole new rabbit hole of issues that we don't want. It's already easy enough for users to participate by installing mpstats; the missing piece is advertising its existence and suggesting that users install it. The only reason we're not doing that is that the stats system still needs work. - Josh
