1894533 - Deprecate browser.telemetry.registerEvents and browser.telemetry.recordEvents and replace them with no-ops

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, task)

Description

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Once all the current, active users of browser.telemetry.registerEvents and browser.telemetry.recordEvent have been migrated away (bug 1894526), we want to stop people from using them. Alas, old versions of privileged extensions will remain out in the wild in perpetuity, so for at least a little while these APIs will have to remain present.

But they don't have to work.

This bug is about:

• Notifying the moz-line-extensions@ list of our intent to deprecate these APIs
  • We're only looking at these two for today, but we wouldn't mind taking the rest out sooner rather than later
  • The migration path is to use the addons_parent scope to get access to Glean APIs (coming in bug 1894532)
  • Though most extensions these days prefer integrating Glean.js instead, so we should definitely mention that and link to some docs
• Replacing the implementation of browser.telemetry.registerEvents and browser.telemetry.recordEvents with no-ops
• [Optional] Instrumenting calls to the now-deprecated APIs, for validation and/or monitoring

Comment 1

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Attachment: Bug 1894533 - Make browser.telemetry.{register|record}Event(s) no-op r?TravisLong!

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6fa3595e11e7
Make browser.telemetry.{register|record}Event(s) no-op r=TravisLong,extension-reviewers,robwu

Comment 3

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6fa3595e11e7