Why not make it pay-per-call? If this is valuable for MariaDB.com then they can pay the submitter for each report. Maybe this is a great use for bitcoin.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Sergei Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> wrote: > Hi, Ian! > > On Mar 11, Ian Gilfillan wrote: > > I understand that the statistics would have some meaning, and > > understand that there's no actual data being sent, etc. > > > > However, enabling the feedback plugin by default IS going to create a > > whole lot of negative publicity for MariaDB. Is the limited data the > > feedback plugin provides worthwhile? Look at the similar situation > > with Ubuntu/Canonical. No matter how much they argued there was no > > real risk, they suffered a huge amount of negative publicity and > > eventually reversed the decision. > > Yes. This is my worry too. That's why Monty has sent this email, > that's why it's planned to be enabled only for beta. > > But asking people to "please enable the feedback plugin" just doesn't > work. It seems that most of our users don't care about it at all - I > mean, they don't care whether it's enabled or not, and don't care to do > anything. That is, if the plugin is disabled - it'll stay disabled, > that's what is happening on Linux. If it's enabled - it'll stay enabled, > that's what is happening on Windows (MariaDB Windows installer has a > special dialog about it with a checkbox that's enabled by default, if > I'm not mistaken). > > > Why go through this pain? Rather use this as an opportunity to create > > a thorough survey (which can provide far more detailed and useful > > information than the plugin running on a beta version) and engage > > constructively with the community. The survey has other benefits too, > > as pointed out elsewhere in the thread - raising awareness of > > lesser-known features, and just spreading the survey will be marketing > > for MariaDB. > > Yes, survey is a good idea and I agree that we should do it. > > > And by all means, give people an option to enable the plugin on > > installation, as long as it defaults to off. > > Okay, I'll see how we could pop up a dialog box during installation > to give users an option to enable or disable the plugin. With the plugin > being automatically disabled in non-interactive installations. > > Regards, > Sergei > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mark Callaghan mdcal...@gmail.com
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