2008554 - Single source of truth for policy capabilities

Status: NEW

(Firefox Enterprise :: General, task)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Different Firefox versions might support different policies, and might support different configuration options within those policies, and be or not be able to support un-setting the policy or changing it live (without restarting). We want a single source of truth for these capabilities that the console can pull from to display the proper UI.

Comment 1

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

This can also include whether the policy is relevant to Firefox for Enterprise (e.g. Firefox Accounts settings).

Comment 2

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Note: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/983c21b678c9b8d2c45b048deb899d5f237efab2

But: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/135 wasn't entirely followed up on.

Comment 3

[Brian Thomas Smith [:bsmth]]

I have the impression we are converging on having this in data in https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/browser/components/enterprisepolicies/schemas/policies-schema.json

But containing additional members, like:

{
  "DisableTelemetry": {
    "description": "Disables the collection and submission of telemetry data.",
    "requires_restart": true,
    "compatibility": {
      "firefox": {
        "version_added": "50"
      },
      "firefox_esr": {
        "version_added": "50"
      },
      "firefox_enterprise": {
        "version_added": "70"
      }
    }
  }
}

For validation, it may look like this example I was roughly drafting: https://github.com/bsmth/policy-compat-data/blob/main/data/policy-compat-data.schema.json

Historical context:

1. Version support info removed in https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/983c21b678c9b8d2c45b048deb899d5f237efab2
2. Descriptions moved out into ftl files for translations https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/4bc09a8e18cd3a797cd5f96fa14ba40ec4dba987

Comment 4

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/enterprise-firefox] Bug 2008554 - Add a linter for current policy JSON schema (#910)

Comment 5

[Brian Thomas Smith [:bsmth]]

I'm proposing a linter in https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox/pull/910 to enforce the current shape of policies-schema.json.