885773 - add buildid + b2g version + channel info to FirefoxOS -- B2G

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Privacy Graveyard :: Product Review, task, P1)

Description

[Anurag Phadke[:[e-mail]]]

The metrics team synced up with Socorro team few hours back. 

To correctly prioritize FFOS bugs, the Socorro team wants the following metrics as part of ADI ping:
full b2g version - Just knowing the major version via UA doesn't help identify the exact source of problem. 
channel - Correctly understand what channel (release/nightly etc.)
buildid - same as above


The above data points will provide ADI counts based on given buildid/channel/version thereby allowing Socorro to correctly prioritize bugs.


The product team is okay in adding the above information to the existing marketplace ping.
We now need approval from Privacy team.

thx,
-anurag

Comment 1

[Anurag Phadke[:[e-mail]]]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863789 for reference. bug:863789 contained information pertaining to just the device type. The current bug requests  additional information be sent as part of ping.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to aphadke from comment #0)
> full b2g version - Just knowing the major version via UA doesn't help
> identify the exact source of problem. 

As I explained in bug 882430 comment #2, that should be both of "full Gecko version" and "full B2G OS version".

In the vast majority of cases, there will probably be a 1:1 match of those and having both just makes it easier to match things on our side, but there are important cases where we won't have a 1:1 match and having both will be imperative, e.g. when our partners send out-of-band updates to the devices (e.g. from 1.0.1.0 to 1.0.1.1), with binary changes that don't have an actual Gecko version update.

Comment 3

[Anurag Phadke[:[e-mail]]]

Thx Kairo for correcting my oversight.

Comment 4

[Stacy Martin [:stacy]]

Hi Alina - assigning to you as product related.

Comment 5

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

privacy triage: What's up with this bug? Did the privacy review happen?

Comment 6

[Anurag Phadke[:[e-mail]]]

The UA for FFOS now contains major and minor version that allows use to know the B2G version. 

this bug should be marked as INVALID. Ravi Dandu is leading the ADI ping for FFOS 1.3 thereby making this bug obsolete. Please redirect all ADI ping questions to Ravi.


-anurag

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

OK,m as there is no planned or current actual ADI mechanism (only a privacy-undermining device activation ping) this means we will never ever have decent comparative crash stats like we do for our other products. But right now I'm happy if we have crash reports at all, let's tackle this when FxOS has actual market share (i.e. we have reached our goals to not just be out of the "Other" category but are an actual market force).