Call for designers for our ports website

[Saagar Jha]

I believe the lack of change there is almost certainly a matter of the project’s personal stance rather than “nobody having a problem with it”. In fact, after the change was merged in there was a fairly long discussion about first disclosing that there were analytics collected at all (which did eventually get implemented) and then switching off of Google Analytics or making it opt-in, which weren’t. Actually, there were multiple discussions but they like the original were generally closed as “WONTFIX” and this has been the policy to this day.

Personally, I would be fairly disappointed if MacPorts went opt-in as such policies suffer from statistical issues in addition to the obvious privacy-related ones.

Saagar Jha

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 16:48, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just FYI Homebrew has always been opt-out for stats. Nobody seems to have a problem with that sufficient to make them change that policy.
> 
> We'll never know if that is why they seem to have 10 x the users on their stats page.
> 
> K