Yes, thanks!

Out of curiosity, is there a dashboard somewhere where we can see
aggregates of the current measurements?

Thanks for your work,

-Mike

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 3:22 PM Doug Thayer <dotha...@mozilla.com wrote:

> 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
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