971972 - Back off sync frequency, or hard error, if we repeatedly fail to sync

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

There's no sense in continuing to try if we constantly bomb out on the same things.

Ideas:

* Repeated failures => longer scheduled intervals
* … => sync only on wifi unless you force or things work again
* If those don't work, enter hard error state.
* If failures are only in a particular engine, track that failure state on a per-engine basis (e.g., don't sync bookmarks until we're on wifi, then hard-error bookmarks).

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

This is non-trivial, so pushing back.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

We should continue to track this for 31+; we'll assign as we get a better picture of outstanding work.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I assigned since 31 is closing fast. If this is something we could uplift, then fine.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

In the spirit of honesty, this is not something I'll get to before 32, but leaving it in my queue is fine.

Comment 5

[Patrick]

This makes sense.
Why can't one vote here? Thanks in advance! Sorry for the bug spam!

Comment 6

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Patrick from comment #5)

> Why can't one vote here? Thanks in advance! Sorry for the bug spam!

We don't have voting enabled for all components.

Voting isn't particularly meaningful here; problems are well understood, but time available to work on them is slim.

Comment 7

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