Hey again. It looks like the merge to mozilla-central happened late (~3am), which I presume to be after the Nightly cutoff so we should expect to see pings to the server and the Android documentation link in today's Nightly rather than yesterday's. - Mike
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Michael Comella < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey all. > > See the subject! You should now begin seeing Android telemetry data > hitting the servers from Nightly builds. > > Documentation on the Android format may be found at: > > https://gecko.readthedocs.org/en/latest/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/core-ping.html > > One caveat to the current implementation is that we only try to upload > when the application is changed from a hidden state to a partially or > totally visible one (which includes startup; we use the `Activity.onStart` > callback) and do not attempt to reupload the document if the upload failed > (e.g. no network access, server is down). Because of an implementation > quirk [1], we increment the sequence number for every attempted upload, > even if the attempt fails. As such, users may be missing documents of > certain sequence numbers when those fail to upload. We don't currently > collect any data that relies on the previous document so this is > non-consequential. This behavior is expected to be fixed in the next > version of the telemetry implementation: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1243585 > > What's currently landed was implemented in the following bugs: > Implementation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205835 > Docs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241599 > A/B experiment data: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241697 > - Mike (:mcomella) > > [1]: Android can kill us after we upload but before we are able to mark > down a successful upload. To ensure we don't upload two documents with the > same sequence, we increment for every attempted upload instead. >
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