On 2017-03-07 7:09 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
While talking about this... I think it's about time we had an actual
plan for data cleanup.
Last week, when the cloudflare thing happened, I went through the files
in my profile looking for all my password-manager-managed passwords and
the domains associated with them. They used to be in a sqlite db, and
are now in json.
The change happened 3 years ago, in Firefox 32.
Guess what? the sqlite db is still there in my profile, with old, stale,
data in it.
I'm not sure why you're using this as an example of a need for a "plan
for data cleanup": I don't see this as a general problem and it
shouldn't be causing you harm. A bug was filed for that
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013947) which is the
usual behaviour so it's not like we forgot about this. We intentionally
gave a grace period to give people time to downgrade if necessary. The
problem is that password manager hasn't been getting properly resourced
other than a bit in the first half of 2015 and this bug is not
considered a priority since like I said above it doesn't cause harm,
it's a small file and that old file is using the same encryption as the
new file. If you disagree about the priority then feel free to comment
in the bug or find an assignee.
Matthew
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