[sytse]

We also called out our signups at GitLab when GitHub got acquired, so it is more than fair that Drew is posting this.

BTW As Drew said https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes.

[0x8BADF00D]

I got an email from you guys yesterday and I have to say I was quite confused. My company is an EE customer and we pay for our seats. Why are you including this telemetry? For the free version I understand, but you should not be treating your enterprise customers like this.

[sytse]

I'm sorry our plans were so far off the mark.

[protomikron]

> [...] we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes

So you revert (don't implement it)? Thx! Reverting it is the right decision (I hope that means "pumping the brakes").

[esotericn]

From what I can tell they're still going to do it, but in a different way, e.g. it might be opt in (hopefully not in a fake-opt-in style like a GDPR popup) or opt out or whatever.

Fundamentally they want to do telemetry it seems and are trying to figure out a hack to get people to accept it.

[emilycook]

(GitLab employee) we're discussing other options too, I'm personally advocating strongly against just going ahead with the current plan. My preference would be for no third-party involvement and just better ways to analyze the data we already have

[acrispino]

Pump the brakes? No. Reverse course, before your product ends up in the same place as github.