From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gathering data on user preferences
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 10:11:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210907081143.GD4097@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czpklsng.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 05:54:09PM +1000, Tim Cross wrote:
[...]
> I was thinking of only getting data on 'non-sensitive' variables
Of course, I didn't assume otherwise. What I was aiming at is that
classifying /which/ variables can be considered 'non-sensitive' is
already some non-negligible work, that's all (and leaving the
decision to each single user doesn't seem fair).
> and
> only aggregate data would be available (i.e. make sure it is not
> possible to say person x submitted values a, b and c).
Of course. Correlations between values might be of interest.
> [...] The possible downside is that this would be
> open to 'gaming' the system, but I'm not sure we need to worry about
> that too much - there is little reward in doing so.
This is why I pointed to Debian's popcon: they just live with that,
and that doesn't seem to be a problem.
> The system would definitely be 'opt in' and the user would be shown
> exactly what is going to be sent (and provided with the ability to
> remove anything they are not comfortable with).
Also, see popcon.
As a small nit: why JSON and not S-expressions? We're lispies, after
all ;-)
But the latter are just details. I guess who gets to implement gets
to choose. That might be an incentive ;-P
Cheers
- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 3:22 Gathering data on user preferences Tim Cross
2021-09-07 4:25 ` Howard Melman
2021-09-07 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 13:22 ` Howard Melman
2021-09-08 13:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-07 6:42 ` tomas
2021-09-07 7:54 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 8:11 ` tomas [this message]
2021-09-07 9:09 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 12:32 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 13:48 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 14:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 16:53 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-07 18:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-07 23:14 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08 7:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08 8:14 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08 10:41 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-08 13:02 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-08 12:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08 13:00 ` Tim Cross
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