From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gathering data on user preferences Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:25:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h7exkphw.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13838"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eKCCGyINZhQLeGSNOK8zbOxMn1Y= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 06:26:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNSgd-0003T9-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:26:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35342 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNSgc-0003CJ-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNSg4-0002Ws-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNSg3-0006Ur-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNSfy-0002hF-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:25:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274194 Archived-At: Tim Cross writes: > My thinking is that we could create an ELPA package which works > in a similar way to report emacs bug (in fact, it could probably > leverage off some of that functionality). Essentially, it would generate a > buffer containing details of variables of interest and their current > setting in a set format which could then be emailed to a data gathering > address. The set format would make it possible to process these messages > via scripts to collate the data. I proposed this almost exactly a year ago... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00451.html I got no responses. I still think it's a good idea and I hope people respond to you. -- Howard