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

The prefs seem potentially more sensitive than the info traditionally 
hidden behind "Show Synthesized Info".

I'd like to see the "Show Synthesized Info" button go away, if you're 
going to include sensitive prefs in the info.  Either the information 
should be exposed while user is writing bug description, or there should 
be a confirmation step after submitting, that pops up a window that 
presents this info that will be added to the bug report and gives them a 
chance to edit or opt-out of it.  An advantage of exposing during 
writing bug description is that the user then knows what info is 
provided automatically, so they don't waste time on it.  Implementing 
the confirmation dialog seems easiest right now, because you can mostly 
just take the code for "Show Synthesized Info", and you don't have a UI 
design&implementation problem for how to expose the info while writing 
description.

I'm not only being a privacy hippie here.  I know of Racket projects in 
which the collects info alone (which Dr* has long included in bug 
reports) could threaten business opportunities of the owner of the code, 
would raise concerns about security that people would then be obligated 
to examine, and could also constitute the bug submitter violating an NDA 
or other restrictions on how they handle certain info.

Robby Findler wrote at 09/27/2011 10:37 PM:
> Would you think it unwise if it was another field behind the
> "synthesized info" button? (Perhaps with some other name, but in
> roughly the same manner.)
>    


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