1589479 - Investigate whether Fenix' activation.activation_id should have user lifetime

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Droettboom [:mdroettboom]]

This is not strictly a Glean bug, but raising it here for discussion with the Glean time before triaging it along.

According to docs:

      An alternate identifier, not correlated with the client_id, generated once
      and only sent with the activation ping.

If it's only needed once, we are we persisting it forever and risking associating it with the client_id?

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/blob/master/app/metrics.yaml#L658

Comment 1

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

This is by design. The activation_id must have the same features as the client_id.

This behaviour is consistent with the Fennec implementation as well and cannot be changed :)