[Popcon-developers] popcon & derivatives

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:33:50AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> > Currently, popcon in derivatives other than Ubuntu submits to
> > popcon.debian.org and we don't have any way to determine which of those
> > are Debian users and which are users of derivatives.
> 
> There wasn't any response to my initial email. Would it be possible
> for the popcon devs to look at this now that wheezy is released?

Derivatives should be considered on a case by case basis. There are too much
differences between them to consider them as a single group so I am afraid
discussing the issue without a reference to a specific derivative will prove a
waste of time.  We should keep in mind the initial purpose of
popularity-contest.

If a derivative want popcon to report to its own popcon server, then they have to ask
user consent, publish a privacy policy etc. so I think it is fair to require them to
patch popularity-contest so the popularity-contest maintainers are not held
responsible for the privacy the server. The cost of patching popcon is trivial
compared to running the server.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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