1060743 - (Due Aug 7th, 2016) Stop using FQL for Facebook contact import before Facebook switching off SDK v2.0

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect, P1)

Description

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Facebook is removing FQL from their services soon. Reading sync_worker.js I found we are stilling using FQL for getting contacts.

You can find the note here saying v2.0 will be the final version supporting FQL.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading#upgrading_v2_0_fql

> FQL is still available in version 2.0, but will not be available in the
> next version of platform. This early warning is given so that developers
> can start migrating off FQL to the Graph API as soon as possible.

App will be forced upgrade to v2.0 on Apr 30th, 2015.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading

> All Facebook-enabled apps will be automaticaly upgraded to API version 2.0
> on April 30th, 2015. 

While there is no definitive date on when SDK v2.0 will be turned off after that date, given the long release cycle from getting the code check-in to actually have the phone hit the shelf, I think we need to remove FQL usage as early as possible.

I am flagging this as blocking 2.1? and feature 2.2? just to make sure this don't fall through the crack. When to get this done depend on the contact dev team.

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Remove the blocking nomination since upon a little bit more digging, apparently Facebook make a commitment on 2 year support of all v2.x versions after the subsequent release. That puts the v2.0 EOL date all the way down to Aug 7th, 2016.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Still I think product to compare that with our lifecycle of our release branches -- for example, we have only just EOL v1.3 but we are still shipping v1.3T just this week, and v1.3/v1.3T was branch off from master on January 31, 2014 -- that's exactly 7 months ago.

Comment 2

[Wesley Huang [:wesley_huang] (EPM) (NI me)]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:
not in 2.2 must-have scope.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on