For v2.5 and master, the email app is changing over to using mozAlarms for background sync requests, instead of using request-sync[1]. Users of the email app should not be disrupted by the change: there is an auto upgrade mechanism in place, it just misses one sync, but will auto sync on the desired interval after that upgrade pass.
We also suggest apps for the near future and for apps already targeting v2.x FxOS versions to use mozAlarms directly instead of request-sync. That could change once Service Workers are the background sync entry point. The v2.2 email app uses request-sync, so if there are consumers of the v2.2-related branches that want to uplift this change, it will require some custom work. Please communicate with us in the bug mentioned below or contact Dylan Oliver ([email protected]) if you want to coordinate something for that branch. This change was done for stability reasons. We were getting some unreliable sync results, and while we have been filing bugs and helping trace issues, it looks like more resources need to be applied for request-sync, likely with a re-evaluation of what it needs to do, and how it interacts with other platform services. We are hopeful that we can switch back to it during the Service Worker age of entry points. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1219853 _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
