Hooray for data! This is great. Thank you! On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:55 AM Ted Mielczarek <t...@mielczarek.org> wrote:
> TL;DR: the next time you run `mach bootstrap` please answer yes to the > prompt to enable build system telemetry. > > Hello, > > Those of us who work on the build system realize that building Firefox is > not always a pleasant experience. We've done a lot of work over the years > to try to improve that situation but we have always relied on anecdotes > from individual developers to know when a problem exists and when things > have improved. Recently we've finished landing some work[1] to enable the > build system to submit telemetry and we're excited to start getting data > that we can use to prioritize future work and validate our results! The > schema of data we're collecting is available in the build system > documentation[2]. Additionally we care very much about your privacy and the > security of this data--build system telemetry data gets handled and stored > in the same systems that handle Firefox telemetry data. > > We've added a prompt to `mach bootstrap` that will let you opt-in to > enabling telemetry so we'd appreciate it if you would do that so we can get > a broad representative sample of the population of developers building > Firefox. If you'd rather enable it manually you can edit the file > ~/.mozbuild/machrc and add the contents: > > [build] > telemetry = true > > If you have any questions about this please feel free to ask here or in > #build on IRC. > > Regards, > -Ted > > 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237610 > 2. > https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/telemetry.html > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
