Re: The future of Linux32 builds and tests

On 09/10/15 02:01, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> 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
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Hi,

I'm not sure I can provide any better metrics. You get blocklist pings
from us though, don't you? Do these provide a useful metric?

Regards
- Chris