The fact that someone even proposed that clearly shows the intentions and the kind of management the project has. Much like Golang, straight to the evil/greedy pile.
What will you do if I go to the Debian developers Mail-List today and propose to add opt-out usage telemetry? Will you insta-quite Debian? No, you will wait to see if the dev team accepts or rejects the proposal. It’s the same situation here with Fedora.
No need to insta-quit Debian, devs are most likely to simply ignore you or send you a ton of bricks reply. The problem with the Fedora community is that it has been taken as a serious option.
What you’re missing here is that Debian, already has some usage telemetry in the form of the package popularity-contest with stats available here https://popcon.debian.org/. This package is optional (not installed by default) you simply get a prompt at setup asking if you want to participate with the option NO highlighted as default. This how things should be done and what GDPR also pushes for - not a “on by default” with an option to disable it hidden somewhere.
The fact that someone even proposed that clearly shows the intentions and the kind of management the project has. Much like Golang, straight to the evil/greedy pile.
What will you do if I go to the Debian developers Mail-List today and propose to add opt-out usage telemetry? Will you insta-quite Debian? No, you will wait to see if the dev team accepts or rejects the proposal. It’s the same situation here with Fedora.
No need to insta-quit Debian, devs are most likely to simply ignore you or send you a ton of bricks reply. The problem with the Fedora community is that it has been taken as a serious option.
What you’re missing here is that Debian, already has some usage telemetry in the form of the package
popularity-contestwith stats available here https://popcon.debian.org/. This package is optional (not installed by default) you simply get a prompt at setup asking if you want to participate with the option NO highlighted as default. This how things should be done and what GDPR also pushes for - not a “on by default” with an option to disable it hidden somewhere.