1401172 - [meta] Collect telemetry data about Marionette usage

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, enhancement, P3)

Description

[David Burns :automatedtester]

I have finally convinced a number of people(read Google) that we collecting this data would be good for the webdriver project.

This bug is to track all the different parts of collecting that meta data.

Comment 1

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

Why do we have to convince Google to collect Telemetry from Firefox?

Comment 2

[David Burns :automatedtester]

(In reply to Andreas Tolfsen ‹:ato› from comment #1)
> Why do we have to convince Google to collect Telemetry from Firefox?

we dont anymore but they were not going to run Selenium in their infra with telemetry pings. They, and us, turn them off for other things but getting meaningful data for webdriver is important.

Comment 3

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

Not making outside network requests during automation is a
reasonable request.  For certain test jobs (unfortunately not for Mn
and Mn-h) we do the same by crash-asserting Firefox when it attempts
a non-loopback network connection.

The last time I spoke with our Telemetry people they talked about
collecting certain data points in a “bucket” separate from that
of non-Marionette-enabled Firefoxen.  I can’t quite remember the
details, but I was assured there exists ways in which we can safely
enable Telemetry but not have that data count towards regular,
non-instrumented, user instances of Firefox.

I feel this is the point where I’ve exhausted my Telemetry
knowledge and that a needinfo for someone on the data team would be
prudent.  As I understand it, the effect we want to achieve here
is to enable Telemetry in such a way that we can collect data from
Marionette, but because this data is tainted by instrumentation and
automation, we don’t want it to be counted as a real data from
real users.

Comment 4

[David Burns :automatedtester]

Never fear... I have all of this in hand :D

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The meta keyword is there, the bug doesn't depend on other bugs and there is no activity for 12 months.
:whimboo, maybe it's time to close this bug?

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

As decided in the meeting this is a wontfix those days and we want to collect the data via surveys and other sources.