+mobile-firefox-dev Thanks for the update.
> Firefox clients will no longer send childPayloads, saved-session pings (from Desktop Firefox), UITelemetry, Telemetry Experiments, and TelemetryLog. Are any of these used on fennec and, if so, are there suitable replacements? I'm not sure if anyone has been actively looking over the Gecko telemetry implementations for fennec and I just want to verify that they're been cared for. :) Thanks. - Mike On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Chris Hutten-Czapski <chut...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi! > > We, the Firefox Telemetry team, are planning to stop sending some ancient > things that are broadly unused. > > What are we removing? > Firefox clients will no longer send childPayloads, saved-session pings > (from Desktop Firefox), UITelemetry, Telemetry Experiments, and > TelemetryLog. > > When? > Firefox 61 (at the earliest) > > Why? > None of them are maintained, none of them have future development, all of > them have replacements that are much better. > > What replacements? > childPayloads - Scalars, Histograms, and Events can be recorded from > parent and child processes. > saved-session pings on Desktop - “main” pings contain essentially the same > data. Fennec saved-session pings will not be removed at this time. > UITelemetry - Simple UI interaction data can be recorded using Scalars or > Histograms. More complicated flows can be recorded with Event Telemetry. > Telemetry Experiments - Shield Studies allow running experiments across > all users. > TelemetryLog - You can use Event Telemetry or Scalars, depending on the > use-case. > > What do I need to do? > Near as we can tell, everyone has already stopped using the data we’re > currently submitting via these means, so you don’t need to do anything. > Thanks for reading, though! > If you -are- using this data, or suspect you might be, please reach out to > me, :chutten, by email or IRC. We'll figure it out together. > > Who else have you told? > This has been communicated through the cross-functional meeting, over the > data team mailing list, to fx-data-dev (anyone who has expressed an > interest in Data Stuff): and now here. > > Can I help? > Sure! The bugs for removing reporting will be filed and fulfilled fairly > rapidly, but that won’t cull the collection code. Look for bugs under bug > 1438873 to offer help or to just follow along. > > What if I need help? > Please contact :gfritzsche, :chutten, :dexter or the team. This goes for > if you have any questions about what we’ve said above or if you aren’t sure > whether or not you actually are using any of these things that are going > away. > > With <3 from the Firefox Telemetry Team > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > >
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