It would explain what it is about to do and then wait ten seconds so it can be terminated if someone doesn't like it. I don't want it to default to not-sending the information, because most installations are done with CPAN or CPANPLUS.

I would dislike this default behaviour. In my eyes (and others can feel free to differ :-) having an installation default to communicating with another site without getting active confirmation from the user isn't acceptable behaviour. It breaks the contract of what I expect modules to do.

I've no real objection to the information being gathered, but I want to be asked first. The information is private to me and there should be a manual opt-in, not an automated opt-in IMHO.

(as an aside you might be interested in cpanstats.)

In reply to Re: Gathering module usage statistics by adrianh
in thread Gathering module usage statistics by Juerd

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