[Chandler-dev] Auto-update questions

[Andi Vajda]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Grant Baillie <grant at osafoundation.org>  
wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> Jeffrey raises some good questions in Bug 12097, that I'm including  
> below, along with my own comments. Please pipe up if you have an  
> opinion ...
>
>> - How do we disclose that we're sending out these auto-update  
>> pings?  For now,
>> personally I think it'd be fine to just prompt "turn on new-version- 
>> check?
>> (yes, no, don't show again) at startup.
>
> Is it OK to put up a dialog at startup (or, soon after startup)? I  
> ask because we've been generally trying to reduce the number of  
> dialogs at startups, of course. I'm also planning, as part of fixing  
> the above bug, "remembering" (i.e. recording in backup.chex) the  
> user's preference here.
>
>> Seems like it's pretty standard to prompt the user (Never, Daily,  
>> Weekly) or
>> something like that.  If we're going to allow varying frequencies,  
>> we might
>> want to consider making the ping include ?freq=daily/weekly, so we  
>> can multiple
>> weekly pings by seven to harmonize our statistics...
>
> Ah, not a bad idea ... I could add that somewhere to the request.
>
>> - Can we include the repository UUID or hash of the UUID in the  
>> ping, to even
>> more clearly measure how many repositories are in use?  Does this  
>> violate
>> people's privacy?
>
> I've been led to believe that so long as we can't extract any  
> personal information from such a ping, it's OK. But it would be good  
> to get confirmation of this.

If Chandler is run in non debug mode, ie with -O, uuids are crypto  
random generated. In debug mode, uuids have recoverable NIC id and  
timestamp in it. This tracing feature is intended for debugging only.

Andi..

>
>
> --Grant
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