+ Nicole Yee

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Mark Hammond <mhamm...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Richard does raise some other points not covered in bug 1419505. I just
> opened bug 1435917 (blocking bug 1415385) for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> On 6/02/2018 10:05 am, Dave Townsend wrote:
>
>> I think we have the sync case covered in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s
>> how_bug.cgi?id=1419505
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:04 PM Richard Newman <rnew...@mozilla.com
>> <mailto:rnew...@mozilla.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     As we briefly discussed some months ago, this will cause Sync
>>     devices to collide: you'll have two profiles that both believe
>>     they're FxA device 12345 and Sync client abcdef.
>>
>>     Avoiding this should be possible by allocating a new Sync client ID,
>>     forcing the clients collection to need a sync (lastSync = 0), and
>>     doing something similar with FxA device registration. This could
>>     potentially require the user to re-enter their FxA password, but I'm
>>     not sure.
>>
>>     Dropping fx-data-dev, CCing FxA and Sync to discuss.
>>
>>     On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com
>>     <mailto:dtowns...@mozilla.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         A new feature we are targetting for Firefox 60 involves giving
>>         each release channel a separate profile by default. In order to
>>         push users into this situation on upgrade non-release channels
>>         will make a clone of the release profile for use going forwards.
>>         Currently this is a complete copy of all files and settings from
>>         the release profile which raises a couple of immediate potential
>>         issues:
>>
>>         The value of toolkit.telemetry.cachedClientID will be shared
>>         across potentially many profiles. I could probably regenerate
>>         this for each cloned profile if there is a procedure for doing
>> this.
>>
>>         Any unsent pings will be cloned and so may be sent as
>>         duplications. The only way to avoid this would be to not clone
>>         the ping but that might mean that those pings are never sent.
>>         I'm not sure which is preferable.
>>
>>         Any other issues I'm not considering?
>>
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