[racket-dev] bug reports: include prefs file?

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Tue Sep 27 22:35:15 EDT 2011

Or you could make it opt-in, and have a disclosure by the button that 
preferences file contains private info.  People who are concerned won't 
click the button, or they will go find the file and check before 
deciding.  This gets you out of writing any GUI for viewing the data.  
(Maybe you provide a button to open the file in DrRacket.)

Or, if you're adding info from various sources, rather than having 
special GUI for each like now, collect all the info, put it in one big 
text field, and people can look at it just as they'd look at at the 
free-form text they write describing the problem.  I think there has 
actually been implementation work in the past to hide this information, 
when exposing it might have been quicker to implement.

Robby Findler wrote at 09/27/2011 10:06 PM:
> Hm. That seems like more work than just asking people when it seems
> relevant. Maybe the status quo is best, after all.

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