It is likely that you'd have seen it anyway, as `brew update` loads casks whether or not installed. Note that this happened only to people who tapped the cask repo. Turning off the autoupdate is highly not recommended -…
I imagine that having an additional server for a (somewhat understaffed) project run by volunteers introduces additional costs and additional maintenance burden. The current process is already convenient and all you…
Fine on the unauthenticated part. But about private data - it's literally anonymous and just counting the number of installs of a package and the number of build failures. All the data they collect (and the code that…
Analytics are an invaluable resource for a volunteer-run project. To their credit, they issue a noticeable warning with the command to turn it off. It seems to me your issue is more about using Google Analytics - if…
The automated pipeline doesn't exist any more. More than donations I think this requires volunteering to review pull requests, as they mention in the disclosure.
I'd rather call it smart engineering that makes it easy for anyone to contribute. `brew bump-formula-pr` etc. are huge drivers behind Homebrew having among the largest number of contributors on GitHub. It would help…
It is likely that you'd have seen it anyway, as `brew update` loads casks whether or not installed. Note that this happened only to people who tapped the cask repo. Turning off the autoupdate is highly not recommended -…
I imagine that having an additional server for a (somewhat understaffed) project run by volunteers introduces additional costs and additional maintenance burden. The current process is already convenient and all you…
Fine on the unauthenticated part. But about private data - it's literally anonymous and just counting the number of installs of a package and the number of build failures. All the data they collect (and the code that…
Analytics are an invaluable resource for a volunteer-run project. To their credit, they issue a noticeable warning with the command to turn it off. It seems to me your issue is more about using Google Analytics - if…
The automated pipeline doesn't exist any more. More than donations I think this requires volunteering to review pull requests, as they mention in the disclosure.
I'd rather call it smart engineering that makes it easy for anyone to contribute. `brew bump-formula-pr` etc. are huge drivers behind Homebrew having among the largest number of contributors on GitHub. It would help…