Re: Way kewl new bug reportin thingy for 31337 XEmacs h4x0r d00dz
Please don't include the user's .emacs or init.el file. I consider
including it to be an invasion of the user's privacy. If you want to
create a mechanism to allow the user optionally to include his/her
startup file, I think that's OK, as long as that defaults to off.
- vin
Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
>>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
SY> |--==> "WMP" == William M Perry <wmperry(a)gnu.org> writes:
WMP> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>> Here's what the new bug reports will look like. I'll put out a
new
>>> net-utils package asap.
WMP> Ummm... do you really think it is a good idea to include the user's
WMP> initialization file? There could be sensitive information in there.
SY> I've included a clause in the Bug Help buffer that basically says
"hey
SY> have a look at the report before you send it and delete any sensitive
SY> data". Is that good enough?
SY> Or is the general consensus "get rid of the init file, we don't want
SY> or need it in our bug reports"?
Would you want to debug the users init file? I wouldn't. So whether
or not the init file contains sensitive data, I'd wouldn't want it
because I wouldn't use it.
Besides, let's be safe with user's data. Sometimes that C-c C-c comes
too fast before I've had a chance to think about it.... :-)
Ray