Want to Help Improve GNOME? This New Tool Gives You the Chance! (UPDATED)
GNOME has come up with a tool that lets users provide anonymous insights about their configurations, extensions, and GNOME-tuned settings.
This should help GNOME learn more about user preferences and make better decisions to enhance the user experience.
Interestingly, an intern at Red Hat (Vojtech Stanek) created this tool.
The tool (gnome-info-collect) is a simple terminal program that you need to download, install, and run to share the data with GNOME.
UPDATE
Now it's covered by Bobby Borisov.
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The GNOME Project Introduces a Telemetry Data Collection Tool
GNOME released a new gnome-info-collect tool that collects (anonymous) information about your system and some of the choices you’ve made.
Above all, we want to stress that there is no cause for concern, especially for highly sensitive users regarding data privacy.
In today’s world, users have mixed feelings about telemetry. But first, for those not in the know, let’s define telemetry in its use as software.
Telemetry typically comprises software running in the background, gathering data about your computer and how you interact with it, and forwarding it to third parties – for example, hardware vendors or operating system makers.
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Help improve GNOME! - Fedora Magazine
gnome-info-collect is a new tool that collects anonymous data about how GNOME systems are configured. It sends that information back to GNOME servers where it can be analyzed. The goal of this tool is to help improve GNOME, by providing data that can inform design decisions, influence where resources are invested, and generally help GNOME understand its users better.
The more people who provide data, the better! So, if you would like to help us improve GNOME, please consider installing and running gnome-info-collect on your system. It only takes a second.
As of last week, gnome-info-collect is ready to be used, and we are asking all GNOME users to install and run it!