Re: [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: first results

[Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hubert Grzeskowiak wrote:

Charly Ghislain wrote:
  

On Monday 10 November 2008 08:21:38 RedShift wrote:
    

Just a warning, generalizing based on these numbers (and on any numbers in
fact) is very dangerous.
      

I agree.
The fact that data comes from users who volontary installed the pkgstat 
package make the results biased.
The best 'statistical' way should be including this in pacman, whithout asking 
user for permission to submit. 
The best etical way shoud be the same, but asking user for permission before 
submitting anything.

Anyway, those results are really interesting !

Charly

    

a pacman which sends informations home - unasked?! are you serious? that
would be a data privacy horror! i don't want to have to observe pacman's
traffic the whole time fearing leaks. a feature/bug like that would
rather raise a huge scandal than appreciation. i have no doubt on this.

an effort on trying to collect helpful data from users (or at least
those who want to do so) was pkgstat, which is currently heavy
discussed, as you surely have noticed.

regards
Hubert Grzeskowiak
  

Uhm... he said not asking for permission would be _purely statisticly_  most valuable but he explicitly mentioned it would be more ethically correct to ask for permission.
Dieter