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Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home


From: Ethan Blanton
Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] [RFC] M.T. phone home
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:38:31 -0400
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Nuno Lucas spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >Hrm, there is a minor problem with this approach, which is that
> >needing an "optimize" command at all is a bug; a design goal is that
> >we would be fast without requiring users bother with such things.
> >(Compare how annoying it is to have to "defragment" on windows, while
> >unix filesystems are generally smart enough to make it simply
> >unnecessary.)
> 
> While I agree with you in theory, the thing is that if there was no
> need of an optimize command then there would be no need of a phone
> home feature (after all, everything was optimized already, so any
> statistic would be just to confirm what we would already know, or to
> send behaviour statistic that no one would care).

Except use cases for usability ...

Ethan

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