1411266 - Research telemetry states for Linux builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

We need to check what's the state of the telemetry flags on the Linux distributions we know are sending Telemetry:

- "toolkit.telemetry.enabled" default value;
- MOZILLA_OFFICIAL status;
- what channel names are being used;
- if they provide different defaults and enable extended telemetry by default.

Comment 1

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

By doing some nice code archaeology on the dependencies of bug 1233687, I found that:

- MOZILLA_OFFICIAL is defined (as expected);
- "toolkit.telemetry.enabled" is false on Release (as expected);
- By looking at https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/47690 we can see that a few builds are sending Telemetry on the "default" channel. Fedora seems to be the biggest one.

Comment 2

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Is toolkit.telemetry.enabled false on non-release as well? Could it be that we currently just do not receive extended data from  any channel on Linux repacks?

Comment 3

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

(In reply to Chris H-C :chutten from comment #2)
> Is toolkit.telemetry.enabled false on non-release as well? Could it be that
> we currently just do not receive extended data from  any channel on Linux
> repacks?

I just checked the repacked Nightly on Ubuntu and toolkit.telemetry.enabled defaults to true, so it follows our behaviour. I'll check Fedora as well.

Comment 4

[Chris H-C :chutten]

How do they disable t.t.e then... do they use the app.update.channel of "release"

Comment 5

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

(In reply to Chris H-C :chutten from comment #4)
> How do they disable t.t.e then... do they use the app.update.channel of
> "release"

Yes, Ubuntu Firefox does that.

Comment 6

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

A volunteer helped verifying Firefox on Fedora. The prefs behave as expected and as outlined in comment 6.