[QGIS-Developer] QGIS and privacy

[Thomas B]

Am Mi., 24. März 2021 um 08:16 Uhr schrieb jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net <
jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net>:

> Nop, the trickiest part is to have a configuration policy beyond the basic
> IT packaging.  I'm using these variables mainly to work with oracle and
> other in-house apps where things like the user_account_name are central, I
> would dread to have a week long fix event after our users would have
> (rightfully from their point of view) checked this box.
>

Couldn't you use a Group Policy to set the  *PYQGIS_STARTUP* environment
variable on every computer and then use a startup.py to make sure the
settings are correct?
I use this for other settings where I don't want the users to change them
and this works fine as the startup.py is run at every start of QGIS.

( Speaking about corporate use of QGIS: it would be nice to have something
like the Initialization scripts the QGIS-fork "Boundless Desktop" had:
https://boundless-desktop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system_admins/init_scripts.html
but it also works with one startup.py file. )

I am glad QGIS has the functionality to track who made the last changes to
a project file but at the same time I can understand concerns about it.
For me it would be a good compromise to inform new (non corporate) users
with the configuration wizard and let them decide what they want. I can
still use the startup.py to make sure the settings are correct.

Thomas

PS: Having the username written to the project file comes very handy if you
want to track changes in project files. We had some tests with the nagios
checkfilechange plugin in combination with git+gitlab and could track the
changes of project files over time which was quite helpful.
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