[Popcon-developers] Bug#577806: popularity-contest: Participate is not the default action

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Luca Bruno (lethalman88 at gmail.com):
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.48
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Hello, actually when installing Debian people is asked to participate to popcon
> or not. The default action is to not participate. I think this makes popcon
> lose a lot of users because they don't even read the page about popcon, and I
> think this applies to most of the desktop/first users. If people is really
> aware of any privacy and networks issues about using popcon, they will then
> choose the right option.   I would like to propose to make participating the
> default action.

This has been debated many times and the privacy concerns have always
been the winning option.

I think anyway that such decision (that affects the default behaviour
of newly installed systems) should be taken outside the popcon
maintenance team and first be discussed in -devel.

But don't expect consensus....and without consensus, the conservative
option wins.


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