Open source friends are upset as the popular app gets new management. This would not be a problem if the new administrators did not add some features to the popular telemetry data collection application.
Let's see what happened:
The program Audacity is a free audio and recording editor that allows you to mix and edit any number of audio files. The program is written in C++ and uses the wxWidgets GUI toolkit to provide the same graphical interface on different operating systems.
Το λογισμικό ήχου Audacity ανοιχτού κώδικα αποκτήθηκε από την Muse Group, η οποία όρισε μια νέα ομάδα διαχείρισης που είναι υπεύθυνη για την ανάπτυξη και φυσικά τις νέες λειτουργίες. Λίγες μέρες μετά την αλλαγή, η νέα διοίκηση αποφάσισε να προσθέσει κάποιες "βασικές δυνατότητες τηλεμετρίας" στο λογισμικό. Η ανακοίνωση έγινε αυτήν την εβδομάδα στο GitHub από τον Dmitry Vedenko, ο οποίος μεταξύ άλλων, Reported that they use the Google Analytics to track the following:
- Its start and end Session
- Errors, such as those of sqlite3, as we need to troubleshoot issues mentioned in the Audacity forum
- Use effects, sound generators, analysis tools so we can prioritize future improvements.
- Use file formats for import and export
- Operating system and Audacity versions
To identify sessions, users receive a UUID that is generated and stored in computer τους. Οι προγραμματιστές χρησιμοποιούν επίσης και το Yandex Metrica για τη σωστή εκτίμηση των καθημερινών ενεργών χρηστών. Ο λόγος που χρησιμοποιήθηκε και δεύτερη υπηρεσία δεν είναι ξεκάθαρος αλλά αναφέρουν το Google Analytics has very limited ratios. Of course, the name of the developer who announced the changes is Russian (Dmitry Vedenko), and perhaps this is also a reason for choosing Russian Yandex.
Both services, however, record the IP from which the request originates.
According to the new management team, telemetry data collection is optional and configurable. The open source community, however, has not been thrilled with the news.
So if the new development team does not respect Audacity friends who have been using it for so many years, they will probably lose users, as the market has a lot of applications.
