[minkles]

> Go telemetry is an opt-in system

Great job Go. Hat tip and respect for this. Unlike .Net. I will enable this where it is appropriate.

[traceroute66]

> Great job Go. Hat tip and respect for this

Whoah. Easy there cowboy.

It was not opt-in when originally announced.

After an extended, shall we say, "lively" discussion on Github[1], they did the right thing and made it opt-in.

(N.B. The discussion was heavily moderated and redacted, it was even more "lively" at the time.)

[1]https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

[etse]

Are you opposed to the process by which discussion can initiate a transition from negative state to positive state?

Seems healthy to me.

[synicalx]

To me, even proposing the (extremely obviously) negative state in the first place is a sign of bad faith on the part of the proposer.

If they proposed kicking puppies twice a day, and after some discussion decided to not do that would we all be applauding their decision?

[heromal]

Ridiculous. Only you believe those two are equivalent.

[synicalx]

I don't believe those two things are equivalent, that isn't the purpose of an analogy.

[neonsunset]

FWIW .NET tooling telemetry can be easily opted-out, which the SDK explicitly tells you about, and there is a page that has full list of the kind of data that is collected (CLI usage metrics and tooling crash stack traces). You can also review the metrics yourself.

About: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

Collected metrics: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

Source code: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

In either case, many teams have CIs with 'DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1' and call it a day even if it makes no difference to them.

[efilife]

Where is it? I honestly want to know

[maccard]

This is a great example of why it's utterly useless. In the link we're discussing, the release notes say:

> To help us keep Go working well and understand Go usage, please consider opting in to Go telemetry by running go telemetry on. In that mode, anonymous counter reports are uploaded to telemetry.go.dev weekly, where they are aggregated into graphs and also made available for download by any Go contributors or users wanting to analyze the data. See “Go Telemetry” for more details about the Go Telemetry system.

If someone who is genuinely interested in knowing where it is can't click one link for information, what chance do the go team have of people turning it on?>