805998 - Finish renaming Android sync code to allow for landing multiple services features

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Android Background Services Graveyard :: Build & Test, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #798043 +++

Real Soon Now we will be developing Android Sync and "the Android snippets client delivery service" in the android-sync git repo.  The repo includes a lot of Android Sync specific things that we might choose to address as part of a large renaming/rebranding.

We might want to:

* generalize the distribution process away from just Sync.  (See also Bug 773050.)
* generalize the manifest structure.
* generalize the resource structure.
* support *not* deploying certain parts of android-services.
* refactor shared code in a slightly saner way.  (For example, move HTTP client things to a separate directory.  Or our configuration/branch handling tools.)

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

This is the kind of bug we'll fix as we're accomplishing other things.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Note that we cannot rename the repo and preserve links:

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To: rnewman
Re: Renaming a repo *with* redirects from the old name?
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Hi Richard,

I am afraid this is not possible currently.

Cheers,
Petros
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Comment 3

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Unactionable refactor bug.