924939 - add option to retain user data to flash scripts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: GonkIntegration, defect)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

this allows easy developer testing with ongoing known-dangerous dogfooding, somewhat akin to dogfooding inbound on desktop builds.

this will ease developers' daily use of the unstable code, and surface migration and backwards compatibility issues early.

Comment 1

[Zac C (:zac)]

The solution will need to be compatible with automation too, for example take an arg that skips the "wipe data?" confirmation.

Comment 2

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

Note that if you dogfood with OTA updates, we don't clear user data. I did months of 1.1 dogfooding like that, never lost my data.

Comment 3

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

But then there are cases where OTA fails and you need to re-flash.

Comment 4

[Zac C (:zac)]

Or you want to be dogfooding on 1.2 or 1.3 :)

Comment 5

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

For fullflash script : https://github.com/nhirata/fullflash/commit/9a2616d2caf6a72eaa3db289c8fe8309d2640916

For TW flash script : https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool/pull/109

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on