1522664 - [meta] [ecosystem] Firefox Ecosystem Telemetry

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Chris H-C :chutten]

In 2019 we can expect to focus on cross-product analysis. With multistore (bug 1494991) data collection becomes easier, but we still have a lot of client work to do.

This will cover the project of designing and building Firefox Desktop's "Ecosystem Telemetry" system.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

:chutten (or :janerik if you feel inspired to dive in!) how much of this bug tree is still relevant given the changed details of ecosystem telemetry? I want to get some bugs filed for the client-side work and I'm not sure whether it's better to start from this tree and refactor it a bit, or to close it out and make a fresh one from scratch. Thoughts?

(TL;DR on the "changed details" for those not following along: the original design for ecosystem telemetry had a uid field that was a HMAC of the user's account id and was split into separate "pre-account" and "post-account" pings; the current design uses an ecosystem_anon_id field which is an encrypted version of a secret derived from the user's account master key, and has only a single type of ping).

Comment 2

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

As far as I understand it the plans for Ecosystem Telemetry changed enough that it makes sense to start fresh.
The current code is currently deactivated, though still in-tree. It can still be re-used, but hopefully become a lot simpler now.
But I'll wait for :chutten's input as well, he's more familiar with the new plan I think.

Comment 3

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Yeah, I'll close down this tree for now. Bugs are cheap and the design's moved along enough that the contents of the bugs in this tree aren't terribly relevant.

Comment 4

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Dependent bugs closed. Closing meta.

Comment 5

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Thanks both! I filed a new meta-bug at Bug 1635652 and will add some tasks to it based on latest plans.