I spoke with @Jdforrester-WMF and apparently there's a lot of existing data about people opting in and out of preferences, but it's never really been meaningfully analysed. It might all be junk. We should check that data first to see if it's any good. If not, then we should implement extra data collection.
Presumably, the data lives in the PrefUpdate schema. @Jdforrester-WMF can correct us if that's wrong.
@Jdforrester-WMF may be interested in the output of this task, as the product owner of Beta Features.
@Deskana from exploration of the data it looks like it is (indeed) still collecting data and usable. The key-value pair format isn't ideal but we do what we can with what we've got :)
Yay!
The key-value pair format isn't ideal but we do what we can with what we've got :)
If you'd prefer the format changed to something else, you should definitely file a task for that. To be upfront though, I doubt we would let that block moving forwards if the data's usable, but depending on the complexity of the alteration we might be able to knock it out quickly beforehand anyway.
Naw, I can't think of a less horrible format to change it to, just grumping that it's somewhat horrible ;p