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

[Robert Xu]

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