Of course the feedback is negative. You obviously knew it would be because you made that blog post in the first place. Three months from now you'll have made some cosmetic changes while still collecting basically all the data you wanted. Eventually you'll be ramping up to roll this into your enterprise offering. I'll do another round of source control tool research and hopefully be able to move gitlab to the NRND list in internal documentation.
That's how it will go, because that's how these things always play out. The world will keep spinning.
We're in the process of taking a 50user Premium (aka self-hosted) GitLab subscription, don't make us reconsider and search alternative means.
[0] https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-r...
ps: SOC2 does not inspire confidence as the whole of EAA needs to follow GDPR.
This doesn't seem like you're pumping the breaks "completely".
It's baffling to me that you would try to run telemetry on self-hosted PAYING customers. Seems totally backwards.
This means they would have to change the ToS before trying to implement it again, which means the current result isn't moving the goalposts at all and is not a step forwards to the original solution.
See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
Blog post isn’t the best way to collect feedback. Just ask your customers directly.
10 bad title on internet is enough to screw your reputation on 10m developers that probably don’t even follow up the story or even don’t bother to read anything beyond Reddit titles and comments. But then you have 10m developers telling their managers “Oh Gitlab isn’t good”.
I see only one option: remove all telemetry and make a blogpost about why that idea was bad that you will not implement it. And even doing so harm is already done. Now you can minimize harm by making such post as fast as possible.
I don't know what did you expect?