Telemetry implications of per channel profiles

[Alessio Placitelli]

2017-10-12 15:11 GMT+02:00 Romain Testard <romain at mozilla.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> We're planning on implementing dedicated profiles per channel (bug
> 1373244), hopefully in Firefox 59, to help address profile corruption
> issues our users can encounter when using a profile previously used on a
> later version.
> Once it gets implemented we'll have more profiles on telemetry and it
> probably impacts the interpretation we have of our telemetry data. A
> solution may be to implement a correlation ID between different profiles
> although current datasets and analysis would likely be impacted.
>
> If there are specific concerns about this please let me know since we’re
> still at scoping stage.
>

Something came out in our team meeting today: we should make sure to retain
the profile creation date when creating and populating a new clone profile
for Nightly/Beta [1], otherwise they will look like new users.

[1] -
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryEnvironment.jsm#1411


>
> Thanks,
> Romain
>
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