On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
If someone only uses Wine periodically/infrequently, we're unlikely to see it.
Currently, we've got two problems:
- We want to collect Wine usage data, so we know where to concentrate
our efforts. 2) We don't want to bug developers with this, because we'll frequently go through dozens of wineboots in a day.
Current proposals:
- Run a dialog box on first wineboot asking to opt in.
- Disable the dialog box by default, but allow distros to enable it,
so we don't bother devs. 3) Run the dialog box periodically, reminding users about the survey. 4) Put an option in Winecfg to allow opting in, similar to Ubuntu's installer's advanced options allowing to opt-in to the package survey.
Problems for propsals:
- Will annoy developers, which means, won't happen.
- Possibly viable, but we're then depending on the distros to enable
it. While Ubuntu/Suse probably won't be a problem (nudges Scott/Marcus), the others may be. 3) More trouble to implement, and annoying. 4) Depends on users finding the survey and opting in. Will give slightly biased info, as well as less than options 1 or 2 would.
I'm leaning toward 2 or 4. The others are annoying/not worth it. Remember, we're not going to get EVERYONE. The idea, however, is to at least get SOMETHING, so we know where/what to target. Currently, we're shooting in the dark.
You're not thinking about the end result of 2. In a peachy world, all distros would enable what we ask them to, then we still get bugged by popups. 4 is the only viable opt-in option.