715299 - report multiple persisted sessions in Telemetry pings

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, defect)

Description

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

Once bug 707320 lands, we can run into a scenario like:

1) Browser shuts down, leaves persisted telemetry data;
2) Browser starts back up;
3) Browser shuts down, overwrites earlier telemetry data without sending the earlier data.

We also need to decide what to do about failure to send persisted telemetry data.

Comment 1

[Sid Stamm [:geekboy or :sstamm]]

Will there be a maximum lifetime for pings stored on disk due to failure?  For example, if my computer is on a network that always fails to ping, will I just continue to accumulate ping data or will it expire at some point?

Comment 2

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

This bug already effectively landed as bug 763524.

(In reply to Sid Stamm [:geekboy] from comment #1)
> Will there be a maximum lifetime for pings stored on disk due to failure? 
> For example, if my computer is on a network that always fails to ping, will
> I just continue to accumulate ping data or will it expire at some point?

We currently accumulate ping data forever.  This is non-optimal.