On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Zachary Goldberg zgold@bluesata.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Kai Blin kai.blin@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 11 October 2008 03:11:38 Austin English wrote:
Can we get back to the original discussion and decide how we want to collect Wine usage statistics?
The only viable proposal I saw was an opt-in in winecfg.
Cheers, Kai
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More so than _how_ we implement it: I think, as Alexandre pointed out, that unless we can establish a clear need for this it won't get committed.
I know a lot of us want this just to scratch our internal statistics monkeys (myself included) but I get the impression it doesn't pass muster unless we can say 'this will help improve Wine because of X'.
Very true. Where it would help is with knowing what apps people are running. Many people might try Wine, and never get it to work, then give up without filing a bug. Conversely, some people might have it work perfectly fine, but since it works great, we never see bugs filed. By collecting these statistics, we'll be able to know what apps to focus on, which will give a bit better direction on which bugs to fix, which features to implement, etc.