Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Adriaan de Groot
20a2465cc7 [tracking] Polish UI a bit
- add icons for graphical display of actions
 - extend description of tracking options
 - add debug logging
 - enable next button
 - show/hide tracking options based on configuration
2017-11-08 04:03:38 -05:00
Adriaan de Groot
806799ece4 [tracking] Fix configuration file.
- The sample configuration file didn't use sub-maps, but list items.
2017-11-07 07:49:44 -05:00
Adriaan de Groot
0d4bd59818 [tracking] Document the configuration file format
- switch to 'enabled' and 'default' settings, independently.
 - document user-tracking as unimplemented.
2017-11-01 09:10:25 -04:00
Adriaan de Groot
aa26ac5dd9 Clang: warnings-- 2017-09-26 11:07:15 +02:00
Adriaan de Groot
1926399378 Telemetry stub.
This is experimental, off-by-default, code for developing a telemetry /
tracking configuration module. It is preliminary work for issue #628,
but also for KDE Neon configuration. Any telemetry should conform to
the KDE Telemetry Policy [1] or similar Free Software telemetry policy
(e.g. the Mozilla one).

[1] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy

Initial idea is to distinguish three kinds of tracking:
 - installs. This tracks that OS <foo> has been installed somewhere.
   It might send some machine information to a remote server.
 - machines. This enables some kind of machine tracking in the

   installed system, for instance it could enable popcon on
   Debian, or periodic phone-home-pings.
 - users. This enables some kind of telemetry / tracking on the
   installed user in the system.

A simple and transparent setting is to enable install-tracking and set
it to opt-in, and disable machine and user tracking. Explain to the
user that <foo> would like to know when <foo> is installed, and that
the following information <d1>, <d2> will be sent to <url> in accordance
to the <foo> telemetry policy at <url2>.

Work in this branch is subject to VDG review for the visuals, and
privacy oversight by whatever group is responsible for <foo> privacy.

Note that this module makes it *possible* for telemetry configuration
to be visible inside the installer; what distro's do with telemetry
already is entirely outside the scope of this configuration module.
2017-08-29 08:00:37 -04:00