1709133 - (update-agent-m2) [meta] Background Update Agent milestone 2 (Windows, Nightly only) tracking bug

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Application Update, task, P3)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

We landed the background update work into Nightly 89 and intended to start rolling it out in Beta 89. But we missed a few pieces; uncovered a few issues; and have some other work on our plates so we're going to roll out a little more slowly.

This meta ticket collects issues we'd like to address in the Nightly 90 cycle.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This work breaks down into a few categories:

• Installer/uninstaller improvements:
  Bug 1698593: Remove scheduled task(s) in uninstaller (including backgroundupdate task)
  Bug 1705726: Don't register tasks for installations not from the installer
• Try to avoid issues with hung tasks
  Bug 1708752: Limit the run time, and exit with a time out, background update tasks that take too long
• Nice to have:
  Bug 1704855: be more efficient/aggressive: make --backgroundtask backgroundupdate restart to apply update after staging
  Bug 1708748: avoid stacktrace in browser console
  Bug 1702052: make Telemetry more resilient, allow to wait for Glean ping to be submitted

Comment 2

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] from comment #0)

We landed the background update work into Nightly 89 and intended to start rolling it out in Beta 89. But we missed a few pieces; uncovered a few issues; and have some other work on our plates so we're going to roll out a little more slowly.

This meta ticket collects issues we'd like to address in the Nightly 90 cycle.

Is this "Nightly 90 cycle" now done? Are these issues all addressed? Just wondering where things are at. Thank you.

Comment 3

[Robin Steuber (they/them) [:bytesized]]

(In reply to Worcester12345 from comment #2)

Is this "Nightly 90 cycle" now done?

Yes

Are these issues all addressed? Just wondering where things are at. Thank you.

No, some bugs are still open. I hope to getting around to fixing these at some point. Unfortunately, I have an extremely lengthy list of bugs that can be described that way.

Comment 4

[Tom Dooley]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from caixidombclear1973.