{"id":40073,"date":"2023-07-14T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40073"},"modified":"2023-07-14T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:14:13","slug":"fedora-telemetry-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/14\/fedora-telemetry-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora Telemetry Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/937528\/\">corbet<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36630032\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/937528\/\"><p>The Fedora project is considering <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/ml\/fedora-devel\/CAJqbrbeOZrHvYjvMCc=qGZD_VXBs3-qReeirr+F8t01Eq1sYhw@mail.gmail.com\/\">a\nFedora 40 change proposal<\/a> to add limited, opt-out telemetry to the\nworkstation edition.  The proposal is detailed; it is clear that the\ndevelopers involved understand that this will be a hard sell in that\ncommunity.\n<\/p><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/ml\/fedora-devel\/CAJqbrbeOZrHvYjvMCc=qGZD_VXBs3-qReeirr+F8t01Eq1sYhw@mail.gmail.com\/\"><p>We believe an open source community can ethically collect limited aggregate data on how its software is used without involving big data companies or building creepy tracking profiles that are not in the best interests of users. Users will have the option to disable data upload before any data is sent for the first time. Our service will be operated by Fedora on Fedora infrastructure, and will not depend on Google Analytics or any other controversial third-party services. And in contrast to proprietary software operating systems, you can redirect the data collection to your own private metrics server instead of Fedora&rsquo;s to see precisely what data is being collected from you, because the server components are open source too.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/16\/go-compiler-telemetry\/\">Go Compiler Telemetry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/1password-to-add-telemetry\/\">1Password to Add Telemetry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>corbet (via Hacker News): The Fedora project is considering a Fedora 40 change proposal to add limited, opt-out telemetry to the workstation edition. The proposal is detailed; it is clear that the developers involved understand that this will be a hard sell in that community. We believe an open source community can ethically collect limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-07-14T18:14:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"98c0e3d3-3e07-475f-8422-f2239b50677a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-14T18:14:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmMDj0z4HR1-EIvIjm1Bneg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[448,355],"class_list":["post-40073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40074,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40073\/revisions\/40074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}