Update on free software and telemetry
I work at GitLab. Support Engineering Managers were briefed about this a few days ago.<p>From inside GitLab Slack:<p>5d
Scott Williamson  We are not adding Pendo or Snowplow JS snippets to self hosted versions yet.  That will likely come in a second phase of the project, and we will figure out opt in&#x2F;opt out for those scenarios before launching.  The reason we are communicating to those customers about it now is so we don&#x27;t have to do the privacy policy change twice.  So for now it&#x27;s just .com customers.  I will let @Tim Hey respond on where he would like discussion on this to go.<p>5d
Support Engineer  Thank you @Scott Williamson, I was hesitant to ping you as I know your time is valuable, but I&#x27;m glad that I did.  :thank_you::thx::thankyou:<p>5d
Tim Hey  Hi @Support Engineer Looks like @Scott Williamson just beat me to the it. :sweat_smile:<p>5d
Support Engineer  You both are amazing and I can&#x27;t thank you enough.<p>5d
Tim Hey  Also if you are interested in the being part of the discussion when we build out the opt in for scenarios like this I&#x27;d love to include you. I believe Lee was interested.<p>5d
Support Engineer  I&#x27;d love to be involved! If there&#x27;s an opt-in or opt-out, it invalidates all the concerns I voiced here. Knowing this, I fully support the decision to add telemetry to self-managed and understand that it would be incredibly valuable for growth.<p>41m
Support Engineer  @Scott Williamson @Tim Hey @supportmanagers We have a lot of upset customers thinking that GitLab self-managed telemetry will be mandatory for Self-Managed GitLab moving forward (no opt-out&#x2F;opt-in) . We need an official response and Zendesk template to help manage the influx