Re: The future of Linux32 builds and tests

On 10/08/2015 02:43 PM, William Lachance wrote:
> Aren't the vast majority of users running a version of Firefox
> distributed by their vendor (of which Ubuntu probably has the largest
> share, see e.g.
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm)?
> I don't think any metrics gathered from the Firefox builds which we
> distribute are going to be very useful for measuring the impact of this
> change.

Oh, right -- it looks like telemetry isn't enabled in my Ubuntu-provided
Firefox build.  (The telemetry checkbox shown in the "how to enable
telemetry" article[1] just isn't present.)  I assumed it would be
enabled (and opt-in for users), but I assumed wrong.

So, it seems we aren't getting telemetry from Ubuntu users at least. So,
unless we're getting platform info some other way (AUS pings?), sounds
like we can't be sure about 32-vs-64 market share without talking to
distros.

~Dnaiel

[1]
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-telemetry-data-mozilla-help-improve-firefox