Expiration question

[Georg Fritzsche]

That sounds clear, i filed bug 1345560
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345560> - which need
pipeline dependencies figured out first though.
The histogram documentation
<http://gecko.readthedocs.io/en/latest/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/collection/histograms.html#expires-in-version>
seems to be clear enough on the field semantic already.

Georg

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin at smedbergs.us>
wrote:

> How about we change the behavior and call it "expires_after".
>
> --BDS
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Georg Fritzsche <gfritzsche at mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We seem to have this coming up repeatedly.
>> What naming would be more clear?
>> "recording_stops_in_version"?
>>
>> Currently we use:
>> - Histograms.json uses "expires_in_version"
>> - Scalars.yaml uses "expires"
>> - Events.yaml uses "expiry_version"
>>
>> We should end up using common field names and make them less confusing.
>>
>> Georg
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Alessio Placitelli <
>> aplacitelli at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It means that it stops being recorded in 55, see
>>> http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/componen
>>> ts/telemetry/TelemetryCommon.cpp#28
>>>
>>> 2017-03-06 15:42 GMT+01:00 Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin at smedbergs.us>:
>>>
>>>> When a histogram expires_in: 55, does that mean that it is recorded
>>>> until Firefox 56, or that it stops being recorded in 55?
>>>>
>>>> I always assumed that expires_in: 55 meant that it stopped being
>>>> recorded in Firefox 56, but seeing some recent alert emails has made me
>>>> less sure.
>>>>
>>>> --BDS
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