[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Thu Oct 21 01:39:35 CEST 2010

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:30, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2010/10/20 Gustavo Giampaoli <giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com>:
+>> 2010/10/20 Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org>:
+>>> I hope you are not serious about this. Creepy unique identifiers (or any
+>>> other tracking method) have absolutely no place in a FOSS community OS.
+>>
+>> Only if the default option is "NOT" enabled and system asks the user
+>> "if he/she wants to collaborate with anonymous statistics" and
+>> something like "if you don't know, use the default option NO".
+>>
+>> Don't know you, but I don't feel "hurt" nor feel my freedom violated
+>> if it lets me choose. Different from Windows that does whatever MS
+>> says without ask.
+>
+> The problem is that according to Robert's suggestion you do not have
+> this choice if you want to file a bug report. I fear you will not get
+> that many bug reports from privacy aware users if this system is used.
+>
+
+wait, what? I did not say that. What I am saying is that you have a choice,
+just that for newbies you shouldn't have to learn how to sign up for a
+bugzilla account and such... That would make Mageia look bug-prone,
+in my opinion.
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+