1501100 - Fennec Android reporting "Default" as channel for many pre-release clients

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Data Platform and Tools :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Frank Bertsch [:frank]]

At least, I think these are pre-release clients. Look at the fennec-android dash: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/fennec-android

The recent numbers for nightly/beta are way down. Proof here: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/59627/source

Comment 1

[Frank Bertsch [:frank]]

Unfortunately we can't actually see the channel, because metadata only has normalizedChannel. You can see a few examples of this in the CEP. Further proof forthcoming using the raw ping data.

Comment 2

[Mark Reid [:mreid]]

Frank, are you still looking into this?

Comment 3

[Frank Bertsch [:frank]]

Yes, this got delayed because of the Fennec Client-id issue, which were the actual cause of the nightly/beta count numbers being down.

However, we are still seeing lots of default channel (per-channel ping counts below for Fennec core ping on 20181110):
  release = 70,373,788
  beta = 1,493,015
  default = 1,295,856
  nightly = 203,161
  nightly-mozilla-release = 134,499
  developer = 3,268

Looks like it is 177186 clients reporting that channel.

Comment 4

[Frank Bertsch [:frank]]

Not an issue now that we've moved to Glean. We can open a new bug if we run into it there.