1433396 - Remove feature to submit crash reports from infobar in beta

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

We only have this feature enabled in early beta, which means we can't analyze trends so easily.

All the tools are ignoring these crashes, by querying Socorro with submitted_from_infobar==false.

For every new Beta release, we stress the Socorro servers (at first, we even had problems scaling the infrastructure) with a lot of crash reports (all those queued during the late beta period).

We remind users of crashes and shutdown crashes that maybe they wouldn't have noticed.

Given the points above, I think we should disable this during early Beta too and only keep it enabled in Nightly, where it can provide real value.

Comment 1

[[:philipp]]

Attachment: bug1433396.patch

this is a presumptive patch for disabling the infobar on beta

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Ted, can you take a look? Who might be a good reviewer for Philipp's patch?

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I would suggest mconley.

Comment 4

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Mike would you mind looking over philipp's patch? It would be handy if we could get this into 60 before Thursday's merge.

Comment 5

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Comment on attachment 8946422 [details] [diff] [review]
bug1433396.patch

Yeah, I'm fine with this. Based on what I've heard, the crash reports submitting by this thing on early beta are more of a nuisance than they are useful. Hopefully nobody is super-depending on this stuff.

Comment 6

[[:philipp]]

great, thanks! in my experience this is causing mostly confusion/detraction after each new beta cycle as well - i'm not aware of any valuable insight those reports would have provided to date.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c0a9a2976d79
Restrict infobar about unsubmitted crashes to Nightly builds. r=mconley

Comment 8

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c0a9a2976d79