From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug'
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 20:23:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1b0ePW-0003zL-3G@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03aa6991-05db-42d8-93cb-9b45ece07436@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 11 May 2016 07:44:48 -0700 (PDT))
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> The answer _might_ be the same each time. Or it might be the
> same _most_ times. The point is to give a user the chance to
> _decide whether_ to be asked each time. Some users might not
> want to be asked each time.
How many times a day is a person likely to report an Emacs bug? Is
there anyone who reports bugs at an average rate of even one bug per
day? I doubt it.
Saving a person an unwanted question at such rare intervals is not
worth enough to matter.
The two things that do matter are
* Privacy.
* Reporting more of the possibly useful data.
The balance between these will vary, so it makes
sense to ask the user to judge it each time.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-12 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2016-05-10 16:20 ` Remove "Recent messages" from `M-x report-emacs-bug' Drew Adams
2016-05-11 0:08 ` Richard Stallman
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2016-05-11 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-12 0:23 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-05-09 13:53 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 14:20 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 14:39 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 14:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-05-09 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-10 15:48 ` Richard Stallman
2016-05-09 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 18:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 19:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 19:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-09 19:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 19:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 20:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-10 22:37 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-09 19:34 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 19:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 19:44 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 19:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 20:23 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 20:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 21:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-10 10:06 ` Rasmus
2016-05-10 12:32 ` Nicolas Richard
2016-05-09 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 20:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 20:35 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 17:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-05-09 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
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