1149208 - Make it easier to create a Firefox Account pointing at stage

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Android Background Services Graveyard :: Reading List Sync, defect, P1)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Right now, one has to install https://github.com/ncalexan/fxa-custom-server-addon to make a Firefox Account pointing at stage.  Bug 1147473 lets one -- very unsafely -- switch an account over to stage after creation.  That's enough for testing, but it's not smooth.

This ticket tracks adding a 5-tap secret entrance for creating stage accounts in some configurations (same as in Bug 1147473) to the Get Started screen.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla-services/android-sync/pull/547

rnewman: I really, really wanted to do this on top of custom RL URLs, but I was lead inexorably to needing to rev the FxA account version to do that.  The account version is read every time we unbundle, so it's sensitive, and any errors in reading/writing could be disastrous.

Rather than using the account version (for its intended purpose, sigh) I added a "side channel" to track this usage.  Any errors in reading/writing should just do the upgrade process multiple times, which (at worst) turns RL sync on when it should be off.  Since upgrade is rare on beta and release, this seems like a much better approach.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Nick, I think you've used the wrong bug number for this. Should be Bug 1149226.

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla-services/android-sync/pull/550

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/1993201b592b

Comment 5

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Backed out for a bad rebase (my error):

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/2231275e63c3

Comment 6

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

NI to me to reland.

Comment 7

[Vivek Balakrishnan[:vivek]]

Git pull request is FxAccountServerConfiguration which will added as part of Bug 1182263.
I'll Leave the NI flags open to revisit later.

Comment 8

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Changes in this area have invalidated this ticket.