1654084 - Determine number of developers building for Android using Telemetry

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, task)

Description

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

To help decide how the amount of resources to invest into the Android environment, we should determine how many developers are developing for it.

Comment 1

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

Attachment: data-review-1654084

Comment 2

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

Comment on attachment 9168599 [details]
data-review-1654084

This seems fine; capturing more detail about the platform that a build targets seems like it would be a more flexible and equally permissible collection compared to just Android-or-not but that's up to you!

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1. Is there or will there be documentation that describes the schema for the ultimate data set in a public, complete, and accurate way?

Glean-style documentation is promised at https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mach/metrics.html#metrics.

2. Is there a control mechanism that allows the user to turn the data collection on and off?

Mach telemetry is opt-in; mach provides a control for telemetry collection.

3. If the request is for permanent data collection, is there someone who will monitor the data over time?

Mitchell Hentges will monitor the collection.

4. Using the category system of data types on the Mozilla wiki, what collection type of data do the requested measurements fall under?

Category 2, interaction data.

5. Is the data collection request for default-on or default-off?

Default-off.

6. Does the instrumentation include the addition of any new identifiers (whether anonymous or otherwise; e.g., username, random IDs, etc. See the appendix for more details)?

No.

7. Is the data collection covered by the existing Firefox privacy notice?

Yes.

8. Does there need to be a check-in in the future to determine whether to renew the data?

mhentges is responsible for renewing as required.

9. Does the data collection use a third-party collection tool?

No.

Comment 3

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

This seems fine; capturing more detail about the platform that a build targets seems like it would be a more flexible and equally permissible collection compared to just Android-or-not but that's up to you!

That's true, but I'm not sure a nice way of generically detecting the target yet.
Since detecting Android as a target is the highest priority, I figured that we can start here, then improve this tracking as additional questions need to be answered :)

Comment 4

[Ricky Stewart]

Attachment: Bug 1654084 - Log build project to telemetry

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/deddfe5f0c35
Log build project to telemetry r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,dmajor

Comment 6

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/deddfe5f0c35