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Apples and oranges. Bug reports are filed by a specific type of user and doesn't give a comprehensive view of all bugs. Statistics can also include a lot more than bugs, like "is the number of MIPS users proportional to the amount of extra effort we need to put in to make that happen?" is not a data point you'll find in bugzilla or other tickets.

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Adding to this, bug reporting in the Red Hat ecosystem is an extremely painful process. Multiple accounts, no feedback, mandatory detailed system information collection if you want to use the built in bug report (which also needs an account). No automatic aggregation, processing, or association with similar issues.

It's a black box with no incentive to participate unless you're one of those specific types of users that is dedicated enough to put up with all of that, or users that have never done it before and are trying hard to contribute back.

So fix that first?

Yup I absolutely think that should be fixed before they try this telemetry option. Anonymous bug reporting (just crash details) are probably more palatable than this proposal but that would be more work on the bug report side to aggregate and filter out garbage, and they want something that is minimal effort on their side (stated directly in the discussion).

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