672696 - Sync crash-report data from each client to server

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

When Firefox on (small) handheld devices crashes, it's incredibly useful to be able to pull up the crash reports on a machine with a larger screen.  It'd be nice if crash-report identifiers were Sync'd across client instances, so that I could open about:crashes on my desktop and then see a table that listed crashes from my phone.

The crash-report identifiers are just the breakpad ids, which are just UUIDs (16 bytes).  It would be a rare client that synced more than a few KB of crash-report data.

What would be required to implement this?  Is this something non-Sync experts could hack in?  (E.g., me.)

Comment 1

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

This could be implemented easily, although we're completely revamping our internal APIs, partially so that implementing new sync data types is much easier. So I would hold off on this for a bit.

Comment 2

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

How much is "a bit"? :)  Is there a tracking bug we can dep here?

Comment 3

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> How much is "a bit"? :)

We want to wrap this up this quarter. (As in, land this on m-c.)

> Is there a tracking bug we can dep here?

Sorta. We have an experimental project branch where we're doing work w/o the Bugzilla overhead (eventually this work will make it back to services-central through the normal review channels, but not for now). The overall "tracking" bug is bug 600059 I'd say.

Comment 4

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

OK, thanks.

Comment 5

[Chris Karlof [:ckarlof]]

I don't see us prioritizing this highly in the foreseeable future.