Closed Bug 1063867 Opened 10 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Add telemetry flag for resource-constrained builds

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

All
Android
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rnewman, Unassigned)

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What's the goal here? All telemetry slugs already include a "memsize". Are you looking for more or different?
We're performing some fairly invasive changes -- not shipping fonts, whole resource directories, whole categories of drawables. I'd like for that fact to be a part of the telemetry payload, and everywhere else it's relevant -- e.g., crash reporter. Not only is this interesting on its own (how many users are on resource-constrained builds?), but it also lets us partition data -- how much better is startup time, or is it worse because Android has to downsample images?
I guess my point would be: Don't we already "know" the APK is then memory-constrained version by looking at the Android API version and the Firefox release, if, for example, we ship a memory-constrained APK to Gingerbread users?
(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #3) > I guess my point would be: Don't we already "know" the APK is then > memory-constrained version by looking at the Android API version and the > Firefox release, if, for example, we ship a memory-constrained APK to > Gingerbread users? We can infer it, but there's always sideloading, distributions, third-party app stores, etc. which can result in an install that's not the app we expect it to be. Generally: it's a tiny flag, and makes the telemetry analysis a 100%-confident matter of picking an item from a dropdown. Thinking more long-term: heuristics might scale to 2 builds, but start to fall down if we ship, say, Gingerbread, HC-JB, JB+, with tablet and phone varieties. We're going to want to be able to spot issues and crashes based on flavors.
tracking-fennec: --- → 36+
tracking-fennec: 36+ → 35+
Not critical for bug 1100361
tracking-fennec: 35+ → ---
We don't support resource constrained builds anymore.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox Build System
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