1353123 - Extend Remote Jar Telemetry so it doesn't expire.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: JAR, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

We want to disable remote jar loading sometime soon, but the telemetry probe is set to expire in 55. Extend it a little longer.

Comment 1

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

Attachment: Bug 1353123 Extend Remote Jar Telemetry Probe

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/126104/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/126104/

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Tom what have you learned from the existing data? Is it inconclusive that we need to keep collecting it?

Comment 3

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

(In reply to Benjamin Smedberg [:bsmedberg] from comment #2)
> Tom what have you learned from the existing data? Is it inconclusive that we
> need to keep collecting it?

Well, we know it's used in an overwhelmingly tiny number of sessions, .01% or so, and exclusively on Windows. 

When we disable it, the probe will tell us if anyone bothers to turn it back on and use it after doing so. 

If we don't care about knowing that, I suppose we could let the probe expire (if we also believe we are okay with removing it either now or in a future release.)

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I totally don't believe that it's worth measuring how many people turn it back on. Diminishing returns!

Although I'll note that "0.01% of sessions" isn't overwhelmingly tiny in the grand scheme of web compat.

Comment 5

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

Okay, we'll let it expire then!