Ted Mielczarek
2018-11-09 19:55:25 UTC
TL;DR: the next time you run `mach bootstrap` please answer yes to the prompt to enable build system telemetry.
Hello,
Those of us who work on the build system realize that building Firefox is not always a pleasant experience. We've done a lot of work over the years to try to improve that situation but we have always relied on anecdotes from individual developers to know when a problem exists and when things have improved. Recently we've finished landing some work[1] to enable the build system to submit telemetry and we're excited to start getting data that we can use to prioritize future work and validate our results! The schema of data we're collecting is available in the build system documentation[2]. Additionally we care very much about your privacy and the security of this data--build system telemetry data gets handled and stored in the same systems that handle Firefox telemetry data.
We've added a prompt to `mach bootstrap` that will let you opt-in to enabling telemetry so we'd appreciate it if you would do that so we can get a broad representative sample of the population of developers building Firefox. If you'd rather enable it manually you can edit the file ~/.mozbuild/machrc and add the contents:
[build]
telemetry = true
If you have any questions about this please feel free to ask here or in #build on IRC.
Regards,
-Ted
1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237610
2. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/telemetry.html
Hello,
Those of us who work on the build system realize that building Firefox is not always a pleasant experience. We've done a lot of work over the years to try to improve that situation but we have always relied on anecdotes from individual developers to know when a problem exists and when things have improved. Recently we've finished landing some work[1] to enable the build system to submit telemetry and we're excited to start getting data that we can use to prioritize future work and validate our results! The schema of data we're collecting is available in the build system documentation[2]. Additionally we care very much about your privacy and the security of this data--build system telemetry data gets handled and stored in the same systems that handle Firefox telemetry data.
We've added a prompt to `mach bootstrap` that will let you opt-in to enabling telemetry so we'd appreciate it if you would do that so we can get a broad representative sample of the population of developers building Firefox. If you'd rather enable it manually you can edit the file ~/.mozbuild/machrc and add the contents:
[build]
telemetry = true
If you have any questions about this please feel free to ask here or in #build on IRC.
Regards,
-Ted
1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237610
2. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/telemetry.html