I looked through the packaging guidelines just now to see if I could find any guidance on
if it is appropriate for applications packaged in the main Fedora repos to have telemetry
sent back to upstream automatically (not just crash reports, but usage telemetry of some
kind), and I couldn't find anything. Has there been any decisions by FESCO/packaging
committee about telemetry in apps and is it written in the policy somewhere?
I am asking because just today a new PR was made to Audacity (one of the packages I help
maintain in Fedora) that adds telemetry gathering:
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835. It is said to be optional and starts as
disabled - but the code for reporting back will still be in the package non-the-less.
Thanks,
-Ian