591100 - setup needs to message that storage is not infinite

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Comment 1

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

We might also want to say that Sync isn't a backup service. Syncing to a fresh profile won't be the same as copying over a profile and deletes are destructive (Sync won't help you recover data).

Comment 2

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

Ragavan and faaborg, can you guys work out what exactly and where we want to say something about limited storage in the setup wizard?

Comment 3

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Will we also say how much free space the user has in the pref pane?  A string on the completion page would be fine.  "You have n MB of free space available."

Comment 4

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Will we also say how much free space the user has in the pref pane?  A string
> on the completion page would be fine.  "You have n MB of free space available."

Once we introduce quota we will have a way of letting the user know this. This will not necessarily work on 3rd party servers, but if the server call fails we could just simply not show that string (and assume that storage is infinite in the sense that the server doesn't support and won't enforce quota).

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Hmm... what's the specified behaviour for "no quotas configured"?  Perhaps we should default to a value in the server/spec?  Or define "unlimited" somehow?

Comment 6

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Hmm... what's the specified behaviour for "no quotas configured"?

info/quota returns a list [used, total_available]. If total_available is null, the server doesn't support/enforce quota.

> Perhaps we should default to a value in the server/spec?

Do we really want the spec to define the exact quota value? That seems wrong.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I can argue either side of that, really.  But we can solve that with the distributed default config, as well.  Mostly I just don't want the time machine effect (which will grow, unchecked, to eat your whole NAS, if you don't config it right).

Comment 8

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I can argue either side of that, really.  But we can solve that with the
> distributed default config, as well.

Right. That would mean it's orthogonal to what we do in the setup wizard, which I like. Would this work for everybody:

* Server supports quota: say something like "You have 8 MB of storage space." on the last wizard page.
* Server doesn't support quota: show nothing

Comment 9

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

(In reply to comment #8)

> Right. That would mean it's orthogonal to what we do in the setup wizard, which
> I like. Would this work for everybody:
> 
> * Server supports quota: say something like "You have 8 MB of storage space."
> on the last wizard page.

Can we say something like: "You are currently using X% of your storage space" ?

Comment 10

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Can we say something like: "You are currently using X% of your storage space" ?

Sure, that makes sense when you're connecting to an existing account. When you're signing up for a new one I think we want to tell them a) that storage is finite and, not so importantly, b) how much they've got.

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Ragavan and I discussed this at length, and we don't feel it's important to push this message to most users.  We'll make the threshold for warning users lower on prod, and that'll tell the users who need to know.