1570386 - Discuss how to "suggest new or change existing metric types" for the Glean SDK

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, task, P1)

Description

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

We need a clear and open process for suggesting new metric types for the Glean SDK (e.g. Urls?). The Glean team should not be deciding alone what's potentially useful or not, other stakeholders might have opinions: data science, data engineering.

We need to create a process for requesting new metric type and make it available in the glean documentation.

Comment 1

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

WIP proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iaol-MfpQxgTeE9FIyptBx5LfNhMUwDaT84J6XLvhwM

Comment 2

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

The final proposal document is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iaol-MfpQxgTeE9FIyptBx5LfNhMUwDaT84J6XLvhwM/edit?ts=5ddbdf6e#

The first round of feedback is for the Glean SDK team only. Please kindly review before Monday the 9th of December, as I'm planning to expand the audience at the Monday meeting.

Please do sign-off at top of the document, if you want (no need to do that).

Comment 3

[Chris H-C :chutten]

General comments:

• It might be nice to have a clean statement of what the expected resource cost is for being a steering committee member. "How many hours a week will I spend doing what, exactly?" sort of thing
• I'm not sure where it might fit, but I think a question of "How many metrics of this type are expected?" might be worth considering as part of the decision. If there's only one distribution of samples of unit "pixels^2", then we can foist it off on custom_distribution. But if they are going to be the latest fad of measurement, then maybe we should have a screen_rect_distribution after all.

Comment 4

[Travis Long [:travis_]]

Read and added a couple of minor comments and I generally agree with the other comments to the doc.

Comment 5

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

Raised a couple of small questions, but nothing blocking the overall proposal.

Comment 6

[Michael Droettboom [:mdroettboom]]

My comments are in the doc.

Comment 7

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

The proposal document from comment 2 was sent around for feedback.